Need help with Gridview

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Hi, I am trying to display data from a database on to the website in a table
format using Gridview.
The problem is that each cell contains alot of data and so, when I try to
show this in the gridview the cells get stretched too large to show it
properly on the page.
One idea I had to remedy this is to have the data "cutoff" at a certain
number of characters and have the cell so that when it is clicked a
Multiline Textbox at the bottom of page show entire content of the "clicked"
cell.
My question is, how can I take the data and modify it for the gridview
before the page loads?
I am new to this, but I am looking at the Gridview events and I am wondering
if using the "onDatabinding" or "onDatabound" event is what I can use to
accomplish this?

If anyone has other advice or a workaround to my issue, I greatly appreciate
it.

thank you in advance.
 
Hi, I am trying to display data from a database on to the website in a table
format using Gridview.
The problem is that each cell contains alot of data and so, when I try to
show this in the gridview the cells get stretched too large to show it
properly on the page.
One idea I had to remedy this is to have the data "cutoff" at a certain
number of characters and have the cell so that when it is clicked a
Multiline Textbox at the bottom of page show entire content of the "clicked"
cell.
My question is, how can I take the data and modify it for the gridview
before the page loads?
I am new to this, but I am looking at the Gridview events and I am wondering
if using the "onDatabinding" or "onDatabound" event is what I can use to
accomplish this?

If anyone has other advice or a workaround to my issue, I greatly appreciate
it.

thank you in advance.
Click to expand...

It's much easier to modify the databinding expression rather than mess
around with text in controls after they have loaded. For example:

For a label control in the item template the text attribute could be

text='<%# (Eval("BigField").ToString()).SubString(1, 10) %>'

in place of the 10 put whatever maximum length you require
 
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