Is there a way to increase the width of the text boxes for the DetailsView
in edit or insert mode? When I put the control in either edit or insert
mode, the text boxes to type the new text are always much smaller than the
available space in the row.
I do not know an obvious answer to that. However, there are two
possibilities:
a) use TemplateFields instead of BoundFields. this way you precisely define
how the edit/insert template looks like so you easily add required
attributes to TextBoxes that you place in templates (I prefer this techique)
b) write a DataBound event handler with a foreach loop for DetailsView's
rows. inside a loop you check if the row contains a TextBox and set
TextBox's width to 100% (I didn't exactly tested that in your scenario but I
use this technique constantly to tweak DetailsView's apperance in other
cases, for example to remove/disable buttons of a CommandField).
If another possibility exists I would be glad to learn it.
Regards,
Wiktor Zychla
