How to prevent asp:FormView from rendering as a table?

Question

I have an asp:FormView with an ItemTemplate. I'd like to design the content within the FormView with some div elements:

<asp:FormView ID="MyFormView" runat="server" >     <ItemTemplate>         <div class="block1">             Stuff...         </div>         <div class="block2">             Stuff...         </div>          ...          <div class="blockN">             Stuff...         </div>     </ItemTemplate> </asp:FormView> 

When I run the application the following HTML is created:

<table id="MyFormView" style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="0" cellspacing="0">     <tbody>         <tr>             <td colspan="2">                 <div class="block1">                     Stuff...                 </div>                 <div class="block2">                     Stuff...                 </div>                  ...                  <div class="blockN">                     Stuff...                 </div>             </td>         </tr>     </tbody> </table> 

Actually the table is somewhat disturbing. I don't know what's the purpose to have an ItemTemplate to freestyle the content but then wrap it into a table.

Is it possible to disable or work around this behaviour? (I couldn't find a flag in the FormView properties.)

Answer 1

You can set RenderOuterTable="false" on the FormView

Answer 2

Use the following code.

RenderOuterTable="false" 

Put it on the FormView. It works in .NET 4.0.