Gridview Row Marque

[Steve]

Hi, I have a problem with the gridView in that when I set the SelectedItem property via my view model the grid highlights the full row even though the selectionunit of the grid is set to cell. I was expecting the grid to just select the first column in the row, rather than the full row. If you click on the row in question the highlight is cleared and the selected cell highlighted. Can the SelectItem property not be used when the selectionunit is set to cell?

[Nick]

Hello Steve,

Let me try to explain how the selection modes in the GridView work. 
The RowSelection, a.k.a. ItemSelection is done on data level, meaning you have a whole selected item under the slected row/rows. When you have SelectionMode set to Cells/Mixed, and you have a selected item, all the cells from that row are getting selected. 
On the other hand, the Cell Selection is not directly related to the selected item, meaning, if you have a selected cell, the item of the row that the cell is in, doesn't have to be selected. 

Hope this helps! 

All the best,
Nik
the Telerik team