Is there any way to get a DetailsView control to render its HeaderText in a <th> cell?

As the DetailsView uses <td> cells for both the header text and the data, I was wondering whether the behaviour of the control can be overridden to render the HeaderText of each row in a <th> cell?

From stackoverflow

• There's no option built into the control itself. However, you can completely override the render behavior for any control, including DetailsView, by using a Control Adapter.

• @Joel Coehoorn Thanks for the quick reply, but I was kind of hoping I wouldn't have to go down that route.

  I was wondering whether it would be possible to override one of the control rendering methods to achieve this?

  Someone seems to have had success rendering <th> cells but did not appear to disclose details - any other suggestions would be gratefully received.

• I managed to find a way around this by using the ItemCreaed event handler and swapping the <td> cell for a <th> cell like this:

  if (view.Rows.Count > 0) {
      // swap each header <td> cell for a <th> cell
      foreach (DetailsViewRow row in view.Rows) {
          if (row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow) {
              DataControlFieldCell td = row.Cells[0] as DataControlFieldCell;
              // skip the last row that contains our command controls
              if (td.Controls.Count > 0) {
                  continue;
              }
  
              DataControlFieldHeaderCell th = new DataControlFieldHeaderCell(td.ContainingField);
              th.Text = td.Text;
              th.Attributes.Add("scope", "row");
  
              // add the new th and remove the old td
              row.Cells.RemoveAt(0);
              row.Cells.AddAt(0, th);
          }
      }
  }
  

• You could also inherit your own custom control from DetailsView, and then override the render method.