iGrid's footer cells were designed as lightweight cells mainly to display textual contents like totals. If you want to show 'rich contents' in these cells, use custom drawing and process mouse events. iGrid provides you with the following events to do that: CustomDrawFooterCellBackground, CustomDrawFooterCellForeground; FooterCellMouseDown, FooterCellMouseMove, FooterCellMouseUp, FooterCellMouseEnter, FooterCellMouseLeave.