gridview formatting issue

[OhioSteve]

One column in my gridview contains about a paragraph of text in each row. For this particular column, I need to set a fixed width and allow word wrap. I tried this syntax:

If IsPostBack Then
            With GridView1
                .DataSource = myDataView
                .DataBind()
            End With
            If GridView1.Columns.Count > 3 Then
                GridView1.Columns(4).ItemStyle.Width = 50
                GridView1.Columns(4).ItemStyle.Wrap = True
            End If
end if

I don't think that the itemstyle lines ever executed. I put a breakpoint on GridView1.Columns(4).ItemStyle.Width = 50, but the breakpoint never triggered. I have no idea why that happened. The gridview absolutely has five columns...i can see them.

So I really have two questions...why didn't those lines execute, and if they had executed would that have fixed the problem??

 

[jebenson]

Where is this code located (i.e., in what event handler)? PageLoad? RowDataBound?




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[OhioSteve]

In the page load event