Adding a ToolTip to an ASP.NET Hyperlink Control in a GridView

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I recently came across a cool solution proposed by Jose to add a tooltip to an ASP.NET Hyperlink control kept inside a GridView. The solution is to create a template field and add a Hyperlink control to it as shown below:

<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="SomeLink">
<ItemTemplate>
      <asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" runat="server" 
      NavigateUrl='<%# Eval("SomeLink") %>' Text='<%# Eval("SomeLink") %>' 
      ToolTip='<%# Eval("SomeText") %>'>        
      </asp:HyperLink>    
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>

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Suprotim Agarwal, Developer Technologies MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) is the founder and contributor for DevCurry, DotNetCurry and SQLServerCurry. He is the Chief Editor of a Developer Magazine called DNC Magazine. He has also authored two Books - 51 Recipes using jQuery with ASP.NET Controls. and The Absolutely Awesome jQuery CookBook.

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