How to define CellPadding in GridView in ASP.NET

Question

• I autoformat a GridView in ASP.NET.

• It looks nice but the headers all run together like this:

  idfirstNamelastNameage

• I

Answer 1

Check the generated HTML and find the table it has created. Check the ID of the table. With the id, add following lines to your CSS. This worked for me when all else failed..

#YourTableIdFoo th , #YourTableIdFoo td 
{
    padding-right:      1em;
}