Limiting characters brought back from a datalist.

[Roffers]

Hi everyone.

I've got this problem that I really have no idea how to solve.

I have a datalist that brings back x amount of rows, I need to limit
this datalist by 100 characters and then append a "..." to the end.

<asp:DataList id="dlDataList" runat="server"
RepeatDirection="Horizontal" RepeatLayout="Flow">
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:LinkButton Runat="server"
ID="lnkbtn1"><%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem ,
"vc_desc")%></asp:LinkButton>
</ItemTemplate>
<AlternatingItemTemplate>
, <asp:LinkButton Runat="server"
ID="lnkbtn2"><%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem ,
"vc_desc")%></asp:LinkButton>
</AlternatingItemTemplate>
</asp:DataList>

You'll see that the list currently gets rendered like
Item1, Item2, Item3, Item4

I need it to be
Item1, Item2, Item3, Ite...

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Any help would be appreciated.
Mark

[jb]

Roffers wrote:

Hi everyone.

I've got this problem that I really have no idea how to solve.

I have a datalist that brings back x amount of rows, I need to limit
this datalist by 100 characters and then append a "..." to the end.

<asp:DataList id="dlDataList" runat="server"
RepeatDirection="Horizontal" RepeatLayout="Flow">
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:LinkButton Runat="server"
ID="lnkbtn1"><%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem ,
"vc_desc")%></asp:LinkButton>
</ItemTemplate>
<AlternatingItemTemplate>
, <asp:LinkButton Runat="server"
ID="lnkbtn2"><%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem ,
"vc_desc")%></asp:LinkButton>
</AlternatingItemTemplate>
</asp:DataList>

You'll see that the list currently gets rendered like
Item1, Item2, Item3, Item4

I need it to be
Item1, Item2, Item3, Ite...

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Any help would be appreciated.
Mark

Mark

You need to add handler for the itemdatabound event. There are plenty of
examples around.

jai