Grid view
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A grid view or a datagrid is a graphical user interface element (widget) that presents a tabular view of data. A typical grid view also supports some or all of the following:
- Clicking a column header to change the sort order of the grid
- Dragging column headers to change their size and their order
- In-place editing of viewed data
- Row and column separators, and alternating row background colors
Some widget toolkits distinguish between a grid and a datagrid. If this is the case, the term datagrid refers specifically to a widget that can be linked to a database with little or no effort from the part of a programmer.
They are commonly used to display lists of files, such as the "Details" view in Windows XP file managers.
Grid views are sometimes referred to as spreadsheet widgets (or spreadsheet controls, with control being a common synonym for widget). This is due to grid views' visual and sometimes behavioral similarity to spreadsheet applications. However, though many grid views support editing of underlying data, they can't be used for arbitrary calculations. Some actual spreadsheet widgets do exist, but are rarely used.
- Tutorials
- Interactive Grid with Your Own Hands - an article by Dmitry Sheiko
- Practice of grid view using within content management
[edit] External links
- Xceed DataGrid for WPF - Example of a modern datagrid designed for Windows Presentation Foundation (.NET Framework 3.0)
