gridview header vs label

[Dimitrie1]

I have a gridview and want to add a header row that goes across the whole grid. I didn't think this was possible so I inserted a label on top of the grid. This works well accept I want the label to have a border and be the same width as the gridview - problem is the gridview varies in width based on data. Is there a better way?

 <asp:Label ID="Label14" runat="server" BorderColor="#5D7B9D" BorderStyle="Solid"
            BorderWidth="1px" CssClass="subTitle" Style="position: static" Text="Inventory"
            Width="437px"></asp:Label>
                <asp:GridView ID="GridView2" runat="server" DataKeyNames="Range_ID" DataSourceID="dsRange"
                             AutoGenerateColumns="False"  AllowPaging="True" AllowSorting="True">
                        <Columns>
                        <asp:BoundField DataField="Range_ID" HeaderText="Range_ID"  SortExpression="Range_ID" Visible="False" />
                        <asp:BoundField DataField="Start" HeaderText="First Serial "  SortExpression="Start" />
                        <asp:BoundField DataField="Stop" HeaderText="Last Serial "   SortExpression="Stop" />
                        <asp:BoundField DataField="Amount" HeaderText="Quantity"     SortExpression="Amount" />
                        <asp:BoundField DataField="Type" HeaderText="Type"     SortExpression="Type" />
                        <asp:BoundField DataField="Category" HeaderText="Category"   SortExpression="Category" />
                        <asp:BoundField DataField="Validity_Period" HeaderText="Validity Period"     SortExpression="Validity_Period" />
                        <asp:BoundField DataField="Name" HeaderText="Owner"     SortExpression="Name" Visible="False" />
                        <asp:BoundField DataField="Total" ReadOnly="True" ShowHeader="False">
                            <ItemStyle  CssClass="none" />
                            <HeaderStyle CssClass="none" />
                            <FooterStyle CssClass="none" />
                         </asp:BoundField>
            
                        
                                              
</Columns>
                    <FooterStyle BorderStyle="Solid" />
                       
                        </asp:GridView>

 

[ca8msm]

You could make the first header columns span the number of header cells you have and then remove each of the other header cells.


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[Dimitrie1]

forgot to mention - I want to keep the current column headers too - I just want too much eh!(actually not me the users)