title: How to insert arbitrary html on a gridview footer
body: <p>Hello i have a gridview generated automatically by visual studio with boundfields like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" 
      DataKeyNames="ID" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" Width="849px" 
      ShowFooter="True"&gt;
      &lt;Columns&gt;
          &lt;asp:BoundField DataField="CarName" HeaderText="Car" 
              SortExpression="CarName"  /&gt;
          &lt;asp:BoundField DataField="Color" HeaderText="Color" SortExpression="Color" /&gt;
      &lt;/Columns&gt;
  &lt;/asp:GridView&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to insert a textbox on the footer of those boundfields, so the user can input new data. I've seen everywhere only examples with templatefield but no with boundfields is this possible?</p>
  
  <p>I don't want to use templatefield as i dont know how to bind the data coming from the sql server to them. I tried using its text property, but the textbox there as html are not picked up by the compiler and raise exceptions if i tried to access them in the aspx.cs file.</p>
  
  <p>It would be ok anyway to add a static row to the gridview i just want my textboxes aligned in with the columns.</p>