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To: Hoatzin who wrote (1744)	10/1/2004 10:35:29 AM
From: SI Bob	Respond to of 6035

I use Netscape and Mozilla, mostly. I see what you mean about IE, no "rules" there at all, so to speak. The "GridLines" property of datagrids supposedly defaults to "None". I added that in to the datagrids for SubjectMarks and PeopleMarks and the rules went away. And now that I've looked at the source and the style sheet, I see some opportuinities for Bob to save some bytes on that page: lots of superfluous font face="Verdana" in there... I've temporarily changed the font to Arial for consistency's sake, but will see what I can do to use CSS later to save a bunch of bytes. Datagrids are very new to me and I may end up not using them at all. I was very impressed at first with how few lines of code it took to draw a page using them, but am not entirely impressed with them overall now that I've gotten more accustomed to them. In fact, pages like Inbox used datagrids early in development and I ended up switching to doing them the way I'm accustomed to: using style "ter" ("Table Even Row" -- I'm even anal about how many bytes I use in CSS names) for even rows and "tor" for odd rows. It takes a bit more code to do it "my" way, and I really don't know if one way is faster than the other, but I think my way tends to use a few less bytes and I've done it so many times I don't even have to think about it when I'm doing it. If anything, I might be adding a minor amount of overhead by tracking a "rownum" variable and incrementing it for each record, then mod'ing it to see if it's even or odd, but I suspect datagrids do the same thing anyway behind the scenes.