This should be done already for you. An ASP.NET GridView is rendered as an HTML table element.
I just tested the HTML table element and discovered that it automatically does "word wrapping" based on the cell width.
See for yourself by copying this into a text file and giving it an .html extension:
- <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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<head>
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<style type="text/css">
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td{
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width:50px;
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border:solid 1px black;
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}
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table{
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border:solid 1px black;
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}
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</style>
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</head>
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<body>
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<table id="myTable">
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<tr>
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<td>
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This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
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</td>
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<td>
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This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>
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This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
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</td>
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<td>
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This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>
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This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
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</td>
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<td>
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This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
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</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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</body>
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</html>
Now, you could try to use CSS to set the
overflow style for the cells (<td> elements) but when I tried this I didn't have any luck. I think that the overflow style only applies to block elements (and table cell elements are not block elements).
-Frinny
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