Thank you for reading. I refuse to use ASP.NET tools (GridView, Repeater, ListView) to build HTML tables. Granted, paging is made simple, but I can achieve this by using clever stored procedures. Don't you think they're too restrictive?
I tend to use code-behind to generate my table, then just dump out the results to the page (<div id="tbl" runat="server" />). I've noticed, however, when generating a larger table, the browser has a tendency to freeze up while it renders the table, since the server dumps out the entire table all at once. With GridView, it loads the table progressively. That is to say, you can actually see the top part of the HTML table while the remainder of the table loads. Is there a way to achieve this behavior (progressively loading HTML) without using GridView? Any help would be greatly appreciated. - Joe C
