How to create a three column table in ASP.Net Repeater

Question

I would like to be able to use the ASP.Net Repeater control to create an HTML Table that has three columns and as many rows as necc.

For example if the Data were to look like this

"Phil Hughes"

"Andy Petite"

"CC Sabathia"

"AJ Burnett"

"Javier Vazquez"

I would like the resulting table to be like

<table>
 <tr>
  <td>Phil Hughes</td>
  <td>Andy Petite</td>
  <td>CC Sabathia</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>AJ Burnett</td>
  <td>Javier Vazquez</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
</table>

How can I do this?

Answer 1

Repeater is not the ideal control to do that. If you're using .NET 3.5 you should use ListView instead. Here's an example that does what you're asking for.

<asp:ListView ID="myListView" runat="server" 
   DataSourceID="YOURDATASOURCE" GroupItemCount="3">

   <LayoutTemplate>
      <table>
         <tr>
            <td>
               <table border="0" cellpadding="5">
                  <asp:PlaceHolder runat="server" ID="groupPlaceHolder"></asp:PlaceHolder>
               </table>
            </td>
         </tr>
      </table>
   </LayoutTemplate>

   <GroupTemplate>
      <tr>
         <asp:PlaceHolder runat="server" ID="itemPlaceHolder"></asp:PlaceHolder>
      </tr>
   </GroupTemplate>

   <ItemTemplate>
      <td>
         <%# Eval("FullName") %>
      </td>
   </ItemTemplate>
</asp:ListView>