How to force an asp.net GridView control to wrap the first line in <thead> </thead> tags

Question

I want to use Christian Bach tableSort client table sorting a jQuery plugin with my asp.Net GridView.

But the problem is that in the documentation he writes:

tablesorter runs on standard HTML tables. You must include THEAD and TBODY Tags:

And unfortunately, asp.net only displays my GridView with tags and a title bar within the first row.

I tried:

   dgvRate.HeaderRow.TableSection = TableRowSection.TableHeader;

after calling .DataBind ();

This helped to have an <TH></TH>inside header. But still inside<tbody>

Can I accomplish this, I mean moving the first line from <tbody></tbody>to <thead></thead>?

I do not want to add it manually at the PreRender stage; I am sure that this could be handled much easier, right?

thank

Answer 1

Sometimes you need to give it an accessible class to call this, for example:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) 
{
  dgvRate.UseAccessibleHeader = true;
  dgvRate.HeaderRow.TableSection = TableRowSection.TableHeader;
  dgvRate.HeaderRow.CssClass = "headerclass";
}

Although for consistency of behavior in all cases, I would go along the PreRender route .