# Form Designer: How to hide the update, edit, or delete buttons in a GridView
**URL:** https://discuss.workflowgen.com/t/form-designer-how-to-hide-the-update-edit-or-delete-buttons-in-a-gridview/884
**Category:** Form Designer
**Created:** [September 26, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.workflowgen.com/t/form-designer-how-to-hide-the-update-edit-or-delete-buttons-in-a-gridview/884 "2017-09-26T21:37:14Z")
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### Author:  [@eddy.daouk](https://discuss.workflowgen.com/u/eddy.daouk)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.workflowgen.com/t/form-designer-how-to-hide-the-update-edit-or-delete-buttons-in-a-gridview/884/1 "2017-09-26T21:37:14Z")
You can hide the **Update** , **Edit** , and **Delete** buttons in GridViews. To do this:
1. In the .NET editor, override the `OnPreLoad` method, and add a `RowDataBound` event to the GridView using the following code:
2. In the code example below, the control fields (`edit`, `delete`, and `update`) are in the fourth column (index 3). To hide the **Edit** button in the `RowDataBound` method, add the following code:
3. To hide a different button, put the appropriate text in the `if` clause. For example:
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### Author:  [@clayton](https://discuss.workflowgen.com/u/clayton)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://discuss.workflowgen.com/t/form-designer-how-to-hide-the-update-edit-or-delete-buttons-in-a-gridview/884/2 "2019-01-09T18:18:51Z")
Hi @eddy.daouk,
I am trying to hide the cancel button, when the row is in edit mode.
I am trying to minimize the number of clicks a user needs to do on the grid.
Is there a way we can make the cancel button hidden.
I tried using the suggested scripts above however, the button still appears.
thanks Clay
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### Author:  [@eddy.daouk](https://discuss.workflowgen.com/u/eddy.daouk)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.workflowgen.com/t/form-designer-how-to-hide-the-update-edit-or-delete-buttons-in-a-gridview/884/3 "2019-01-09T18:25:27Z")
Hi @clayton,
There are two things that need to be changed in the **Gridview\_RowDataBound** method above:
1- First, make sure that the code contains the correct index:
If the button is on the second column, the index is 1, so the code will be:
`foreach (Control c in e.Row.Cells[1].Controls){...}`
If you indicate the wrong index, the button will not be found. Hence, the button will still appear.
2- Finally make sure that the label of the cancel button is well written in the code (Case sensitive):
`if (b.Text == "Cancel"){...}`
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Eddy.
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### Author:  [@clayton](https://discuss.workflowgen.com/u/clayton)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.workflowgen.com/t/form-designer-how-to-hide-the-update-edit-or-delete-buttons-in-a-gridview/884/4 "2019-01-10T15:11:17Z")
Hi @eddy.daouk.
It worked! Awesome.
Thanks Clay
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### Author:  [@donaldante](https://discuss.workflowgen.com/u/donaldante)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2019, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.workflowgen.com/t/form-designer-how-to-hide-the-update-edit-or-delete-buttons-in-a-gridview/884/5 "2019-02-19T10:21:09Z")
Check this Add, Edit, Delete…[GridView example](http://asp.net-informations.com/gridview/gridview-operations.htm)