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Formatting ASP.NET ListView

Hi Experts, I was wondering how can I make my data presented in a ASP.NET Listview control look more proffesional. I know asp.net came with different pre-build templates, but since I modified many setting both in my Layout Template, and my Item template , I cannot get to choose this option.. I want this to be shown kind of in a table cell with background and border each result, I dont speake too much well english but hopefully you can see what I am looking for, this is my list view code.,,, I need to either create a tabular style in this code or meabe something on the stylesheet.

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<asp:ListView ID="ListView1" runat="server" DataSourceID="AccessDataSource2"  >

         <EmptyDataTemplate>
         <span></span>
        </EmptyDataTemplate>
    <GroupTemplate>
            <tr ID="itemPlaceholderContainer" runat="server">
                <td ID="itemPlaceholder" runat="server">
                </td>
            </tr>
        </GroupTemplate>
        <ItemTemplate>
        <br />
        <table runat = "server" class ="middle_box_content" ></table>
            <span style="background-color: #E0FFFF;color: #333333;">
      <b>
            <asp:Label ID="Last_NameLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Last Name") %>' />
            ,
             <asp:Label ID="First_NameLabel" runat="server" 
             Text='<%# Eval("First Name") %>' />
             <br />
               <asp:Label ID="Prof_DesigantionLabel" runat="server" 
             Text='<%# Eval("Prof Designation") %>' /></b>
             </b>
             <br />
            <asp:Label ID="SpecialtyLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Specialty") %>' />
            <asp:Label ID="Specialty_2Label" runat="server" 
            Text='<%# Eval("[Specialty2]") %>' />
            <br />
            <asp:Label ID="AddressLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Address") %>' />
            <br />
            <asp:Label ID="Address2Label" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Address2") %>' />
            <br />
            <asp:Label ID="CityLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("City") %>' />
            ,
            <asp:Label ID="StateLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("State") %>' />
            ,
            <asp:Label ID="ZipLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Zip") %>' />
            <br />
            <asp:Label ID="PhoneLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Phone") %>' />
            <br />
            <asp:Label ID="FaxLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Fax") %>' />
            <br />
<br />
</span>
</table>
        </ItemTemplate>


        <AlternatingItemTemplate>
        
            <span style="background-color: #FFFFFF;color: #284775;">
                  <b>
            <asp:Label ID="Last_NameLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Last Name") %>' />
            ,
             <asp:Label ID="First_NameLabel" runat="server" 
             Text='<%# Eval("First Name") %>' />
             <br />
               <asp:Label ID="Prof_DesigantionLabel" runat="server" 
             Text='<%# Eval("Prof Designation") %>' /></b>
             </b>
             <br />
            <asp:Label ID="SpecialtyLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Specialty") %>' />
            <br />
            <asp:Label ID="Specialty_2Label" runat="server" 
            Text='<%# Eval("[Specialty2]") %>' />
            <br />
            <asp:Label ID="AddressLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Address") %>' />
            <br />
            <asp:Label ID="Address2Label" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Address2") %>' />
            <br />
            <asp:Label ID="CityLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("City") %>' />
            ,
            <asp:Label ID="StateLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("State") %>' />
            ,
            <asp:Label ID="ZipLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Zip") %>' />
            <br />
            <asp:Label ID="PhoneLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Phone") %>' />
            <br />
            <asp:Label ID="FaxLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Fax") %>' />
            <br />
<br />
</span>
</span>
        </AlternatingItemTemplate>
   <LayoutTemplate>
            <table id="Table1" runat="server">
                <tr id="Tr1" runat="server">
                    <td id="Td1" runat="server">
                        <table ID="groupPlaceholderContainer" runat="server" border="1" 
                            style="background-color: #FFFFFF;border-collapse: collapse;border-color: #999999;border-style:none;border-width:1px;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
                            <tr ID="groupPlaceholder" runat="server">
                            </tr>
                        </table>
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr id="Tr2" runat="server">
                    <td id="Td2" runat="server" 
                        style="text-align: center;background-color: #5D7B9D;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #FFFFFF">
                        <asp:DataPager ID="DataPager1" runat="server" PageSize="12">
                            <Fields>
                                <asp:NextPreviousPagerField ButtonType="Button" ShowFirstPageButton="True" 
                                    ShowLastPageButton="True" />
                            </Fields>
                        </asp:DataPager>
                    </td>
                </tr>
            </table>
        </LayoutTemplate>
        
    </asp:ListView>

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well I am trying to undertand how do I format the listview,  did you look my code?
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ASKER

I want to have each doctor info in a cell with borders? any clue in my code how woudl I do this?
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in your ItemTemplate add the following to each <td>:

style="border: solid 1px black"

in order to put black border around each cell
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I am not sure I can completely understand what's going on with your ListView untill I run your code. Do you have sample access database for your application?

I suggest you try this:

<GroupTemplate>
            <tr ID="itemPlaceholderContainer" runat="server">
                <td ID="itemPlaceholder" runat="server" style="border: solid 1px black">

                </td>
            </tr>
        </GroupTemplate>
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I dont have any td in my item template, do I create them manually? do I do the same on the Alternating?
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not it does not show them, this how it should looks:

http://rgvppo.com/ProviderSearch.aspx



ProvidersSample.accdb
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Actually, based on your design, the easies thing you can do is add to each label tag the following BorderStyle=Solid BorderWidth=1px

so that the label looks like this:

  <asp:Label ID="Prof_DesigantionLabel" runat="server" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="1px"
             Text='<%# Eval("Prof Designation") %>' />
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did you see the site ?
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another way is by changing your ItemTemplate to look like this:

 <ItemTemplate>
        <br />
        <table id="Table1" runat = "server" class ="middle_box_content" ></table>
            <span style="background-color: #E0FFFF;color: #333333;">
      <b>
      <table>
      <tr>
      <td style="border: solid 1px red">
     
            <asp:Label ID="Last_NameLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Last Name") %>' />
            ,
             <asp:Label ID="First_NameLabel" runat="server"
             Text='<%# Eval("First Name") %>' />
             </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
             <td style="border: solid 1px red">
               <asp:Label ID="Prof_DesigantionLabel" runat="server"
             Text='<%# Eval("Prof Designation") %>' /></b>
             </b>
             </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
             <td style="border: solid 1px red">
            <asp:Label ID="SpecialtyLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Specialty") %>' />
            <asp:Label ID="Specialty_2Label" runat="server"
            Text='<%# Eval("[Specialty2]") %>' />
            </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
             <td style="border: solid 1px red">
            <asp:Label ID="AddressLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Address") %>' />
            </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
             <td style="border: solid 1px red">
            <asp:Label ID="Address2Label" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Address2") %>' />
            </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
             <td style="border: solid 1px red">
            <asp:Label ID="CityLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("City") %>' />
            ,
            <asp:Label ID="StateLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("State") %>' />
            ,
            <asp:Label ID="ZipLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Zip") %>' />
            </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
             <td style="border: solid 1px red">
            <asp:Label ID="PhoneLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Phone") %>' />
            </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
             <td style="border: solid 1px red">
            <asp:Label ID="FaxLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Fax") %>' />
            </td>
            </tr>
            </table>
<br />
</span>
</table>
        </ItemTemplate>
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Looks pretty good, however I wan to do this at the the tr level , colum with all data, not each cell, as in example
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then just do the same to <tr> instead of <td>
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actually you canonot do that for table row, just table cell
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Iam kind of confussed I guess I am not underatding how the list view is rendered
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is there a particular reason why do you want to do this at a row level and not at a cell level?
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to separate each physician info on my search engine..

I am moocking :

http://rgvppo.com/ProviderSearch.aspx 

do a search
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oh, so you want rach block of data to look just like the one on that page?
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yes ..
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Thanks that helped
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