How to Prevent Word Wrap in an ASP.NET GridView

 

Recently I came across an interesting answer by Jason, where he suggests how to stop word wrap in an ASP.NET GridView. I thought of sharing this trick with the viewers facing similar issues:

The trick is to use

<td style="WORD-BREAK:BREAK-ALL;">

Check this sample:

<style type="text/css">
.DisplayDesc { width:500px;word-break : break-all }
.DisplayDiv { width:500px; OVERFLOW:hidden;
              TEXT-OVERFLOW:ellipsis}
</style> 

 <asp:TemplateField>
 <ItemStyle Font-Names="Tahoma" Font-Size="X-Small" 
 HorizontalAlign="Left" 
    Wrap="True" />
    <ItemTemplate>
    <div class="DisplayDiv">
            <asp:Label CssClass="DisplayDesc" ID="Label1" 
            runat="server" 
        Text='<%# Bind("SomeLongText") %>'></asp:Label>
    </div>
    </ItemTemplate>
 </asp:TemplateField>

I am sure there are many developers who had this problem in the past without a decent solution. Let me know if it worked for you!

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Suprotim Agarwal, ASP.NET Architecture MVP works as an Architect Consultant and provides consultancy on how to design and develop Web applications.

Suprotim is also the founder and primary contributor to DevCurry, DotNetCurry and SQLServerCurry. He has also written an EBook 51 Recipes using jQuery with ASP.NET Controls.

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