I have styled almost everything inside the grid view just have two small nasties left , please see attached files - how can i find these elements and set the background to 1 % alpha
1. the box on the right can i set this small (1px) or 1 % alpha or collapse (image1.png)
Thank you for sharing this picture to us. The border to the left is actually the FrozenColumnSplitter element and you can remove it by setting CanUserFreezeColumns property of RadGridView to False. The other part you need change is actually the GridViewHeaderRow's Indicator, you may access it by editing the template of GridViewHeaderRow. I have prepared an example for you that demonstrates these approaches.