Tag: sticky table headers

The GridView control in ASP.NET Web Forms is an extremely useful and quick way of getting data out to the user in a nice tabular format. It does have one weak spot though and that is some of the tags it uses when doing this. Specifically, not putting the header information inside a <thead> tag. So why is this important? When you have a LOT of rows (as some do) after you’ve scrolled down the page and the table headers are out of view you can forget which column is which, especially i