I've set the width property of my datagrid during design. When I click one of the grid "edit" buttons, the grid blows out to over twice the specified width. Is there a way to make the datagrid maintain the specified width even in edit mode ?<BR><BR>Thanks<BR>Tom THey Tom, all I can do now is share the pain with you. I have not (yet) given up but it is on the backburner. <BR><BR>I went as far as changing field length / type etc; messed around with the xsd file - no luck so far.<BR><BR>will take it up again in the next couple days under the heading beautyfying! will certainly let you know if I find something<BR>brgds edHey, Thanks for the response Ed. At least I'm not overlooking something simple.<BR><BR>I've tried changing the length of my fields in the DB, attempted to set "AutoFieldSize" to False then setting individual bound column widths (error).<BR><BR>At this point, I've given up on the Q&D edit option of the datagrid and just use the edit link to fire a sub that reads the cells in the selected row into separate textboxes, do my edits, then push it back into the datagrid and dataset. <BR><BR>A pain, but at least the UI doesn't look like dirt.<BR><BR>Let me know if you come up with any ideas.<BR><BR>TT