EmptyDataTemplate and EmptyDataText not working in GridView

asp.net gridview emptydatatext
Farinha picture Farinha · Jun 3, 2010 · Viewed 19.1k times · Source

I can't seem to get either EmptyDataTemplate or EmptyDataText of a GridView to work.

I'm fetching the GridView contents in de codebehind and attaching them with using DataBind(). I've tried having them as null and as an empty List, and in both cases the text I put into EmptyDataTemplate or EmptyDataText is not displayed.

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT (Code snippet)

This is my GridView:

<asp:GridView ID="grid" runat="server" EmptyDataText="EMPTY">
</asp:GridView>

And I've tried these two for binding the data:

grid.DataSource = new List<object>();
grid.DataBind();

grid.DataSource = null;
grid.DataBind();

Answer

Farinha picture Farinha · Jun 9, 2010

This problem is caused by using the so-called CSS-Friendly Control Adapters. With them enabled (and they seem to be enabled by default), EmptyDataTemplate and EmptyDataText don't work as expected.

To disable the adapters, go to the App_Browsers folder, and in the CSSFriendlyAdapters.browser file, comment out the following section (or the section related to the control you're using):

<adapter controlType="System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridView"
               adapterType="CSSFriendly.GridViewAdapter" />

The big problem is the styles will go away.

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