On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Joe C. <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? -----------------------------------
Why not look to jQuery for your display instead? Just as an initial suggestion on your data, you are probably getting too much in the first pass if the server in a send or the browser in a receive croaks. You might have a quote mark in all that text as well. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell
