Ken,
I had considered that method, but thought there might be a better,
more elegant way. The DIV method I mentioned allowed the boxes to
resize as a product of browser window resizing (they were defined as
percentages), whereas this approach wouldn't.
But at this point, I guess the cross-browser compatibility is going to
take precedence over style... Again...
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># left( DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Longtext"),20)[/color]
Gee, what happened to Left([FieldName],20) ;-)
It'll take me a week to absorb this particular object's hierarchy.
What I _really_ need is a wall sized chart that breaks out the huge
number of objects and their properties/methods/etc/etc.
Thanks,
Greg
Ken Cox - Microsoft MVP said:
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>How about just trimming off the characters that you don't want?
>
> <itemtemplate>
> <asp:label id="Longtext" runat="server"
>cssclass="displayfield" text='<%# left( DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,
>"Longtext"),20) %>'
> width="80px">
> </asp:label>
> </itemtemplate>
>
>
>"GregG" <GregG@electron.com> wrote in message
>news:96rq12h4vfluv33glgeoik8u7096n146j9@4ax.com.. .[color=green]
>> Ken Cox - Microsoft MVP said:
>>[color=darkred]
>>>Hi Greg,
>>>
>>>When you create the textbox in the template, can you set its columns
>>>property to the number of characters you want to view?
>>>
>>> <asp:textbox id="TextBox1" runat="server" columns="20">This is a very
>>>long string of which only the first twenty are relevant</asp:textbox>
>>>
>>>Perhaps I missed your point?
>>>
>>>Ken
>>>Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET][/color]
>>
>> This is my second call for help (the first got no replies), and in my
>> desire to keep it short, I snipped some of the relevent text... As
>> per the snippet below, this is an example TemplateField entry for one
>> field.. There are other fields, several of which are NOT to be
>> editable. The reasons for this are that different users have
>> differing levels of editing capability, depending on their company
>> department.
>>
>> It's not a problem to limit the columns in edit mode, when using a
>> textbox. But where the text is _only_ displayed, we don't want
>> textboxes, but labels - or other non-editable entity.
>> As below: (watch the word wrap...)
>>
>> <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Email" SortExpression="SEmail">
>> <EditItemTemplate>
>> <asp:TextBox Width="80px" CssClass="editfield" MaxLength="40"
>> ID="SEmail" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("SEmail")%>'>
>> </asp:TextBox>
>> </EditItemTemplate>
>> <ItemTemplate>
>> <asp:Label CssClass="displayfield" Width="80px" ID="SEmail"
>> runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("SEmail") %>'>
>> </asp:Label>
>> </ItemTemplate>
>> </asp:TemplateField>
>>
>> I could be overlooking something obvious, as I've only been using
>> ASP.Net2 for a week, but have a pretty extensive background in ASP,
>> HTML, VBA/Access, etc.
>>
>> We got it to work in IE using DIV wrappers around the label contents
>> and applying a CSS style containing explicit width, overflow: hidden
>> and nowrap, but it breaks in Firefox, NS - which stretches the text
>> full length and stretches the gridview WAAAY off-screen.
>>
>> I hate tables and stopped using them years ago, but tables are what
>> the GV control generates... ;-)
>>
>> I'd show you an example online, but I'm afraid of the traffic it would
>> generate on our server...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>>
>>>"GregG" <GregG@electron.com> wrote in message
>>>news:r4np121j9msv0ehcdtkv4rvr23iknqetqm@4ax.com ...
>>>> Greetings,
>>>>
>>>> I have been working with the new GridView control, and while figuring
>>>> out most of it's idiosyncrasies on my own, have stumbled upon a
>>>> problem I cannot seem to resolve.
>>>>
>>>> We have table displayed in a GV control.
>>>> It allows for editing and selecting, etc.
>>>> Some of the fields are 60 characters long, but only the first 20 or so
>>>> are relevant, and all of them have to fit on one line within the row -
>>>> with the overflow being hidden and not wrapped.
>>>>
>>>> So...
>>>> What we need is to be able to clip the overflow of a predefined width
>>>> that is assigned to each column.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Greg G.
>>>[/color]
>>
>>
>> Greg G.[/color]
>[/color]
Greg G.
