I like the Tablecloth sample because the presentation of the grid changes as the user interacts it. It does a good job of keeping the user focused on the data elements the they are currently working with.

So during a recent visit to the Ajax Rain site, I came across a sample that had a few features that I thought would be nice to add to our extra-wide grids.

n the YUI theme I created, I used a single sprite image and used CSS to pinpoint the location within the sprite for the background image of the tab panel header's.

After working on a YUI TabView theme for the AjaxControlToolkit's TabContainer control, I thought it might be fun to create a few more TabContainer themes for some of the other tab-style controls that I have seen floating around the web.

During my most recent effort I came across what I thought was a slick looking GridView like control (YUI calls it a DataTable Control).

Horizontal menu templates.

I want to show you what you can do with a minimal effort and a little imagination. Here's a screenshoot from Windows VISTA. We'll try to reproduce that toolbar, with buttons and hover effect in cross-browser compatible CSS and HTML.

CSS sprites are a way to reduce the number of HTTP requests made for image resources referenced by your site. Images are combined into one larger image at defined X and Y coorindates.

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