I'm a Datalist Man. Always have been.  Probably always will be.  But there's overhead in the datalist control that can get in the way of a fragile HTML display environment.  I wanted simple right align of a list of first and last names.  I trimmed the string, both in the query and in the presentation.  Still not aligned-right properly. 

So I resorted to the Repeater.  I'll take a tablecell, align it right, stick a repeater in it and put a <BR> at the end of each ItemTemplate.  Done and done.  Next.