Symbol font doesn't display in FireFox 1

[markros]

Hi everybody,

I'm working on ASP.NET application. I have a GridView and one of its columns has checkboxes (they are used to set Approve status). I wanted to save the space and tried to set Header attributes to use special character for selected (sort of square root character).

Here is the definition in my ASPX file

<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Ö" SortExpression="Approved">
                                                     <%-- <HeaderTemplate>
                                                        <asp:CheckBox runat="server" ID="HeaderLevelCheckBox" />
                                                     </HeaderTemplate>--%>
                                                    <EditItemTemplate>
                                                        <asp:CheckBox ID="chkApproved" runat="server" Checked='<%# Bind("Approved") %>' />
                                                    </EditItemTemplate>
                                                    <ItemTemplate>
                                                        <asp:CheckBox ID="chkApproved" runat="server" Checked='<%# Bind("Approved") %>' />
                                                    </ItemTemplate>
                                                     <HeaderStyle Font-Names="Symbol" />
                                                </asp:TemplateField>

It displayes properly in IE, but doesn't display in FireFox. Is there anyway to make some character that would be appropriate for showing a checkbox?

Thanks a lot in advance.

 

[Vragabond]

Can you show us your client-side code. That might help us track down the problem.

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[ChrisHunt]

Well done, you've posted code to the HTML forum that doesn't include a single line of HTML. If you want to ask questions about asp, and post asp code, you should try forum333 or forum855 .

If you have an HTML question, you need to view your page in a browser, do a "view source", and cut & paste the HTML that the browser sees. ASP stuff is no use to us here.

If your question boils down to "How do I display a square root sign in HTML?", the answer's simple, and doesn't require any symbol fonts. Just do this:

<p>This is a square root sign: &#8730;</p>
<p>So is this: &radic;</p>

Either the numeric or the text style character entity (radic is short for "radical", dunno why they didn't make it &root works the same way.

There's a complete list of character entities here:

http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/

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[markros]

Thank you so much, it worked.