Modify Data View properties

When you create a Data View in Microsoft Expression Web, you can modify the Data View properties so that the Data View appears in the browser the way that you want it to.

Before you can modify the Data View properties, you need to add a Data View to the page. For more information, see Add a Data view.

To add a header, a column summary row, a footer, or custom text to a Data View

1. In Design view, right-click Data View, and then click Show Common Control Tasks. In the Common Data View Tasks list, click Data View Properties.

   Tip

      You can also click the Data View in Design view, click the arrow in the upper-right corner to show the Common Data View Tasks list, and then click Data View Properties. Click the arrow again to hide the list.

2. On the General tab in the Data View Properties dialog box, do one or more of the following:

   Use this	To do this
   Show view header	Insert a table header row above the Data View.
   Show column summary row	Show a column summary row below the Data View.
   Show view footer	Show a table footer row below the Data View. Note: If the Data View includes a summary row, the footer row appears below the summary row.
   Display text if no matching items are found	Show custom text if the Data View is empty.

To modify the layout of a Data View

1. In Design view, right-click Data View, and then click Show Common Control Tasks. In the Common Data View Tasks list, click Data View Properties.

   Tip

      You can also click the Data View in Design view, click the arrow in the upper-right corner to show the Common Data View Tasks list, and then click Data View Properties. Click the arrow again to hide the list.

2. Under HTML view styles on the Layout tab in the Data View Properties dialog box, select the style that you want.

   Tip

   Click a style to read a brief description of it.

   Note

   You can link to a custom XSL file by using the XSLT Source tab.

Modify the XSLT source

1. In Design view, right-click Data View, and then click Show Common Control Tasks. In the Common Data View Tasks list, click Data View Properties.

   Tip

      You can also click the Data View in Design view, click the arrow in the upper-right corner to show the Common Data View Tasks list, and then click Data View Properties. Click the arrow again to hide the list.

2. Under Choose the XSLT source file, click Browse to locate the XSLT file that you want. You can also modify the method used to process the XSLT.

To modify the default XSLT processors

1. In Design view, right-click Data View, and then click Show Common Control Tasks. In the Common Data View Tasks list, click Data View Properties.

   Tip

      You can also click the Data View in Design view, click the arrow in the upper-right corner to show the Common Data View Tasks list, and then click Data View Properties. Click the arrow again to hide the list.

2. Under XSLT Processors, click the method that you want.

   Note

   Click a processor to read a brief description of it.

See also

Concepts

Data views

Add a Data view

Apply conditional formatting to a Data view

Sort data in a Data view

Create a formula column in a Data view

Modify the columns in a Data view

Filter data in a Data view

Add RSS feeds to a page

Display sample data in a Data view