Grid view, how to set the height of all rows to specific height regardless of the amount of data

[DougP]

I have a grid displaying comments, like 200 words and if there are a lot of words the row height is huge? so tryign to view a lot of records is difficult.
how can the row height be set.
I tried these but nothing works >

http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/286389/how-to-set-gridview-row-height

this grid is databound using a SQLDataSource.

If I only return the first 50 characters and they need to edit the info, I have to write code to go get the whole string. too much work.


DougP

 

[jbenson001]

If I only return the first 50 characters and they need to edit the info, I have to write code to go get the whole string. too much work.

What I do in this situation is to get the whole string up front, which I assume you are already doing. Then, in the grid, I only display x characters with a "... more ... ": ex:

this is the column with lots of data and [b][red]... more ... [/red][/b]

I use a label control. I assign the tooltip of the label to the whole string. The label text is only the first x chars + "...more"
Then onMouseOver(javascript) of the label, I hightlight the label and the tooltip will show the whole string(that is by default, no code required)

It seems complicated, but is very simple and a good solution to what you want to do.