How to Display Mouseover Effect in WebGrid Rows Using Only CSS

This article will show you how to display mouseover effect in webgrid rows using only css. In this there is no use of jquery or JavaScript code to show the highlight effect.

Some of my previous articles are as follows: Asp.Net MVC : WebGrid Image Binding With Shorting Data Using C#.Net, Asp.Net MVC : WebGrid Image Binding Using C#.Net.

So for  this article first we will create   a new mvc application and add the below model class code.

public class CountryModel     {         public List<Country> CountryList { get; set; }     }     public class Country     {         public string CountryName { get; set; }         public int Population { get; set; }         public string FlagURL { get; set; }     }

Now check the code of controller.

//         // GET: /Home/         [HttpGet]         public ActionResult Index()         {             CountryModel _countryModel = new CountryModel();             _countryModel.CountryList= GetCountryList();             return View(_countryModel);         }         ///         /// Country list         ///         public List<Country> GetCountryList()         {             List<Country> _country = new List<Country>();             _country.Add(new Country { CountryName = "India", Population = 124000, FlagURL = "CountryFlag/india.png" });             _country.Add(new Country { CountryName = "China", Population = 84545, FlagURL = "CountryFlag/china.png" });             _country.Add(new Country { CountryName = "Germany", Population = 9354999, FlagURL = "CountryFlag/germany.png" });             _country.Add(new Country { CountryName = "Japan", Population = 24999, FlagURL = "CountryFlag/japan.png" });             return _country;         }

        

In above code I have prepared the code to pass the data to model from controller to view. Now we will create the view and add the below code to bind and styling the grid view.

@model MVC_Demos.Models.CountryModel @{     ViewBag.Title = "How to Display Mouseover Effect in WebGrid Rows Using Only CSS"; } <style type="text/css">     .gridtable {         font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif;         font-size: 11px;         color: #333333;         border-width: 1px;         border-color: #666666;         border-collapse: collapse;     }         .gridtable th {             border-width: 1px;             padding: 8px;             border-style: solid;             border-color: #666666;             background-color: #dedede;         }         .gridtable td {             border-width: 1px;             padding: 8px;             border-style: solid;             border-color: #666666;             background-color: #ffffff;         }     .gridtable  tr:hover td,     .gridtable  tr.even:hover td.active,     .gridtable  tr.odd:hover td.active {         background: #b6ff00;     } </style> @using (Html.BeginForm("Index", "Home")) {     <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="2" border="0" style="background-color: White;">         <tr>             <td>                 @{     var grid = new WebGrid(source: Model.CountryList,     rowsPerPage: 10,     canSort: true);                 }                 @grid.GetHtml(                     tableStyle: "gridtable",                     alternatingRowStyle: "even",                     columns: grid.Columns(                     grid.Column("CountryName", "CountryName"),                     grid.Column("Population", "Population"),                     grid.Column("FlagURL", header: "Country Flag", format: @<img src="~/@item.FlagURL" alt="@item.CountryName" width="30px;" />) ))             </td>         </tr>     </table> }

In above code please check the highlighted part of the code of css style. This code us responsible for highlighting the row on mouse over.  Now we have done run the application to check the output.