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In case anyone else runs into this issue...

I recently wanted to set alternating item style on a grid row that
contained a template item for the entire row. This template item
contained html table tags. This allowed me to make each single grid row
a multiple row table (I needed each grid row to be 3 rows worth of
stuff).

However, when I tried to set alternating item style on the grid, row
background color was not visible because table row tags superceded it -
essentially were laying over the color so that it never showed.

To fix this, I had to dynamically set a background color on the
embedded html table rows in the datagrid template item. I gave the html
row tags <tr's> a unique id attribute (id=myid), and set the runat
attribute to server (runat=server). Both attributes are necessary! Then
in the grid ItemDataBound event, I put this code in (where "row1Valid"
was my unique <tr> tag id):

If e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.AlternatingItem Then
Dim row As HtmlTableRow = CType(e.Item.FindControl("row1Valid"),
HtmlTableRow)
row.Style.Add("background-color", "#E0E0E0;")
End If

Put in the Style Add command for each tr tag in the item template.
Worked great! Hope this helps someone else.
Nancy Steinmann
MCSD .NET

Hi Nancy

Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge this will definetly help.

Regards
Fiaz Ali Saleemi