Changing default with of controls in EditForm

[improwise]

When using EditForms (the "auto generated" ones, ie no custom form template) I find that the controls, in most cases TextBoxes, are always a bit to narrow. This is especially true since the EditForm is rendered verticaly, and so AT LEAST 2/3s of the EditForm is always unused (all white).

1. What's the best way to make a application wide change for this? Or even "developer machine wide"?
2. Telerik, I suggest you change your default templates for this to make everything wider, as there is no point making it very cramped by default, when you know that at least 50% of the EditForm to the right will be empty anyway. Please consider this for future releases.

[Dimo]

Hi Patrik,

I am afraid there is no "wide" way to set textbox widths for the RadGrid edit form. You can do this in ItemCreated.

http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/grdaccessingcellsandrows.html

(see "Accessing cells using column Unique Name" and "Accessing the value of cells in edit mode")

Alternatively, you can use declarative column editors with explicit widths set, as in this demo:

http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/grid/examples/dataediting/alleditablecolumns/defaultcs.aspx

Currently we do not set any widths to edit form textboxes. Doing so is easy, but will hardly suit all scenarios (e.g. all possible RadGrid widths), so for the time being we refrain from implementing it.

Regards,
Dimo
the Telerik team