After some further research I have come to conclusion that it is not possible - there is inbuilt javascript that simply clones the webpart into a floating div that appears when you go to drag a webpart. Maybe in future versions (I'm working in 2.0) this can change... Initially I wanted to have the page in catalog mode all the time but to get a solution to the problem I have moved away from this. I have added a boolean property to my webparts that when set to false will not add any controls to the webpart. Therefore when my button is pressed to put the page in catalog mode, this flag is set to false meaning just the title of the webparts are displayed enabling quick cloning into the floating div. Thanks to anyone that did try and find a solution.

Hi Michael, thanks for the reply. The code you provided is similar to what I currently have but as yet doesn't work, the only difference being that I am using hidden fields to store the position of the scroll rather than a cookie. When I put an alert in with the function after setting the scrolltop, the page and all the information is there and visible when the alert pops up but the DIV doesn't have any scrollbars yet (it just carries on through the bottom of the page). Once ok is pressed the DIV appears to resize (no resize event fires...) and then the scrollbars appear. Setting the scrolltop property when no scrollbar is present does not change the value, it stays at 0. That is what I want to do when the DIV has finished loading and the scrollbar is present, set the position of the scrollbar. Can the resizing be due to the DIV having it's width and height being set as a percentage rather than an absolute? -- modified at 4:27 Friday 30th November, 2007

Ben is absolutely right and just want to add one more thing make sure u have taken all resources with the setup used by released Dlls Cheers :) Anuj

Cheers that does the trick

Cheers that worked, still a bit of a gap but between rows that are still remaining but it's better than having unused controls. :)

Cheers, I thought it would be something like that. I'll just use the work-around of entering a single space in when the value I want to send in is empty, then when retrieving the data I'll check for that and return an empty string to the UI.

:-D Cheers mate, that worked, didn't realise that it would take a string!

Cheers mate, my google search techniques must be poor as I didn't come accross that :sigh::doh:

This is how I've done it in the past: Always include one blank or dummy row at the very beginning of the gridview's datasource datatable. Then in the gridview's RowDataBound event add code to check if it is the first row, and if it is to hide it. It would look something like this: Protected Sub GridView1_RowDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewRowEventArgs) Handles GridView1.RowDataBound Select Case e.Row.RowType Case DataControlRowType.DataRow If e.Row.RowIndex = 0 Then e.Row.Visible = False End Select End Sub Since the gridview has a row it will display the headers, but the row itself will be hidden.

Cheers for the reply I have also tried with the same code in a new project now and it works. Suppose this project is just being funny with me :mad: thanks again

Sorry for taking so long to reply, didnt email me like it said it would. The problem is solved, it was because a textbox with multiline selected is rendered as textarea which has both innerHTML and innerTEXT where as a single line text box does not have either of these. Instead changing the .innerHTML or .innerTEXT to simply '.value' solved the problem. Thanks for replying.