I absolutely love the datepicker control. I have to say my favorite part beyond it 'just working' is the MinDate and MaxDate.

My situation is that I have an ASP.NET 2.0 DataList where every date field is editable (I hate the design, my client loves it). Unfortunately 5 datepickers for each row adds a lot of size to the rendered HTML content.

So far I've cut over 60KB from the output after finding this post on using an external CSS file.


Now my question.
I see the datepicker's calendar renders as a table and that each TD is rendered as:

What I would like to do is use a CSS class for the TD. Is this possible? It doesn't seem like much gain but it is repeated so many times it is definitely adding up.

Also, any other tips for cutting down the render weight? I don't want to call it bloat but I wanted to add that word for anyone else searching like I did.

I know there might be something I can do with the scripts to extract them to the server that might help too but I haven't worked with that yet.

Thanks.

Thanks for the quick reply. That demo you linked is awesome! I think that I will attempt to convert my page to use your grid in excel mode rather than trying to fix my page in its current form. I was just unaware of the excel mode of your grid before!

Ok I promise I'll read more documentation but I already had trouble with the grid. I made a new page, plopped a grid on it, clicked the edit columns, and any time I try to add one it just closes the dialog. If I set the style for the grid first, then when I try to edit the columns I get "object reference not set to an instance of an object". If you want I can make a new post for this question.

Thanks again!!

Oh, no, you misunderstand, I meant dialog as the windows dialog for editing the columns. It just disappears.

Anyway after a little searching I found this post about it being a bug and the workaround to edit the columns from inside the grid editor itself.

Thanks!