Does anyone know of a way of hiding a column in an asp.net listview?

Question

I know you can put <% if %> statements in the ItemTemplate to hide controls but the column is still there. You cannot put <% %> statements into the LayoutTemplate whic

Answer 1

The listview doesn't really have a concept of 'column' since it is intended just to be, well, a list.

I'm going to assume that you are using databinding to attach a list of 'somethings' to the ListView. If that is the case then you will just have a list of items and the html in the LayoutTemplate will decide on just how those items are displayed. If you are then talking about creating a table-style array of columns and rows then maybe a DataGrid would be a better choice since this gives much more programmatic control of specific columns.

It may be that you are hoping to create the table layout entirely through CSS, which is an admirable decision if it is purely for layout purposes. However, your requirement to specifically hide one column indicates to me that a table is better placed to suit your needs. It's fine to use tables for tabular data...IMHO...

If you really do need to use a ListView then you could always try binding against something in your data which determines whether an element should be shown or not, e.g.:

style='display: <%#Eval("DisplayStyle") %>;'

Place this code within the html element that you want to control (in the LayoutTemplate). Then in the object you are binding to you would need a property 'DisplayStyle' which was either set to 'block' or 'none'.