gridview - show only 1st couple words of the data field

[stonehead]

Hi all,

I use gridview to show my data. There's one field called description. It's very long so it looks really ugly if I have everything shown. Is there a way for me to show just 1st couple words the field & (make it hyperlink) so users can click on those words of that one record to expand if they want to read the whole thing? Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[jbenson001]

Yes. Just return the first x characters of that colum(I assume from some DB) and add "..." after it. I suggest that so the user knows there is more text. Then you can just make that column a hyperlink column or a template column with a link in it to a pop up page. In that page(pass it an id) and query the db with that ID to show that column.

 

[stonehead]

I wrote a little function for it and it worked. Thank you.

 

[jbenson001]

Great, glad to help