Twitter Bootstrap and ASP.NET GridView

Question

I am having aproblem using Twitter Bootstrap from my ASP.NET application. When I use the table table-striped css class to my asp:GridView control, it treats the Header of the table as a Row.

My GridView

ASP.NET MarkUp

<asp:GridView ID="dgvUsers" runat="server" 
    CssClass="table table-hover table-striped" GridLines="None" 
    AutoGenerateColumns="False">
    <Columns>
        <asp:BoundField DataField="UserID" HeaderText="ID" Visible="false" />
        <asp:BoundField DataField="Username" HeaderText="Username" />
        <asp:BoundField DataField="FirstName" HeaderText="First Name" />
        <asp:BoundField DataField="LastName" HeaderText="Last Name" />
    </Columns>
    <RowStyle CssClass="cursor-pointer" />
</asp:GridView>

Result

<table id="cphMainContent_dgvUsers" class="table table-hover table-striped" 
       cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <th scope="col">Username</th>
            <th scope="col">First Name</th>
            <th scope="col">Last Name</th>
        </tr>
        <tr class="cursor-pointer">
            <td>user1</td>
            <td>Test</td>
            <td>User 1</td>
        </tr>
        <tr class="cursor-pointer">
            <td>user2</td>
            <td>Test</td>
            <td>User 2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr class="cursor-pointer">
            <td>user3</td>
            <td>Test</td>
            <td>User 3</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

It should be like this

<table class="table table-striped">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>#</th>
            <th>First Name</th>
            <th>Last Name</th>
            <th>Username</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>1</td>
            <td>Mark</td>
            <td>Otto</td>
            <td>@mdo</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>2</td>
            <td>Jacob</td>
            <td>Thornton</td>
            <td>@fat</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>3</td>
            <td>Larry</td>
            <td>the Bird</td>
            <td>@twitter</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

How can I make the header of my asp:GridView be treated as a Header by Twitter Bootstrap? My code is in C#, framework 4, build in VS2010 Pro.

Answer 1

You need to set useaccessibleheader attribute of the gridview to true and also then also specify a TableSection to be a header after calling the DataBind() method on you GridView object. So if your grid view is mygv

mygv.UseAccessibleHeader = True
mygv.HeaderRow.TableSection = TableRowSection.TableHeader

This should result in a proper formatted grid with thead and tbody tags