Datagrid style is screwed on IIS 6
Hi experts,
I have a really irritating CSS/datagrid problem. I am developing an ASP.NET page in VB.NET on XP SP3 with VS.NET 2005. When I view the page on my machine, the datagrid looks perfect (see attachment 1). But when I copy the EXACT files to the production server (Windows Server 2003 standard, SP2) the datagrid looks ugly (thicker grey lines) and the header breaks (see attachment 2). I am viewing both in IE8 on the same machine.
Why is this happening?! Is there something about IIS6 that displays datagrids differently to IIS5?
Thanks
Jon
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I have a really irritating CSS/datagrid problem. I am developing an ASP.NET page in VB.NET on XP SP3 with VS.NET 2005. When I view the page on my machine, the datagrid looks perfect (see attachment 1). But when I copy the EXACT files to the production server (Windows Server 2003 standard, SP2) the datagrid looks ugly (thicker grey lines) and the header breaks (see attachment 2). I am viewing both in IE8 on the same machine.
Why is this happening?! Is there something about IIS6 that displays datagrids differently to IIS5?
Thanks
Jon
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ASKER
I have removed my custom CSS and left the datagrid as such:
asp:datagrid ID="dgCurrYear" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False
But yet, the ugly gridlines are there, rather than the clean, thinner, lighter ones.
asp:datagrid ID="dgCurrYear" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False
But yet, the ugly gridlines are there, rather than the clean, thinner, lighter ones.
ASKER
I have just discovered something else. If I visit my own local machine from another machine, the datagrid looks broken! So it would appear that if I view it locally, it looks like I expect it to, but if I visit it remotely, the formatting is screwed. I have confirmed this by putting a copy of the site on another machine and performing the same tests.
Is there a setting in IIS or .NET that is causing this to happen?
Is there a setting in IIS or .NET that is causing this to happen?
That sounds very odd.
So what happens if you make the border colour red for example - what do you see local and remote?
So what happens if you make the border colour red for example - what do you see local and remote?
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Crikey what a pain. I didn't know it could be set depending on network type. Well I'm glad you found the problem that's a tough one to learn :)
I wonder if it is caching the CSS file - maybe you are seeing a previous version. Is the CSS in a separate file - try deleting it, should see no style.
Unless you are styling it all inline in the code.