Here is the answer i was looking for: mysteries of configuration anyone making a medium-large scale web site should know about this :)

Hi, Thanks for your reply. Do you mean the Web.config file in the website? That is what i will resort to if I can't get my way, but I was hoping to still be able to use Settings.settings or something similar in the Class Library (not something in the website).

As it turns out, I did not need the align="center". This is what I used: .... I got this answer from http://forums.asp.net/t/1280636.aspx

The real problem was due to this construction: <asp:Panel ... > <asp:GridView ...> ... </asp:GridView> </asp:Panel> The properties that were causing problems were in the Panel: overflow and scrollbars. Settting overflow to visible and scrollbars to none fixed my problems. *happy*

This won't work, it needs to be recursive. And no, there's no better way. Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

boy.pockets wrote: I have looked at GridView.Rows[index].DataItem, but that always seems to be null. The DataItem in GridViewRows is not saved by viewstate except in some functions such as RowDataBound. Permanently stay where my heart locates

Thanks, that works just as i need it. I had tried the $ character at the end, but not in conjunction with ^. Thanks to Mabo42 to the reply as well.