Radgrid not diplaying text in angular braces

[vishesh kumar]

Hi, 
I have used radgrid to display some search records. However, I am not able to records like "<keyword>" which are however returned from the stored procedure and part of the datasource that is used to bind.

<telerik:GridHyperLinkColumn DataTextFormatString="{0}" DataNavigateUrlFields="Id"
                                                                    DataNavigateUrlFormatString="/sites/abc/xyz/vhj/Pages/view.aspx?id={0}&ReturnUrl=/Pages/Search.aspx"
                                                                    UniqueName="ItemTitle" DataTextField="Title" HeaderText="Title" SortExpression="Title"
                                                                    HeaderStyle-CssClass="ms-toolbar" HeaderStyle-Width="17%" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left"
                                                                    ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" ItemStyle-Wrap="true" SortAscImageUrl="/_layouts/Images/abc/SortAsc.gif"
                                                                    SortDescImageUrl="/_layouts/Images/abc/SortDesc.gif" DataType="System.String" >
                                                                </telerik:GridHyperLinkColumn>

This is my column definition.

Can you please let me know if there is a workaround for this or this is a feature?

[Daniel]

Hello Vishesh,

You should set the HtmlEncode property to true - this way RadGrid will encode the HTML-like content automatically.

<telerik:GridBoundColumn HtmlEncode="true" ...

Regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team

[Stimo]

Hi,

You can do that if your column is GridBoundColumn, but what about GridTemplateColumn? It doesn't have HtmlEncode property

[Daniel]

Hello Stimo,

You should manually encode the text when using templates.

In such cases, you can use the HtmlEncode method:

HttpServerUtility.HtmlEncode Method (System.Web)

Regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team

[Tonino]

Hi!

Is there a way to set HtmlEncode="true" for the whole Grid? Or for the whole project?

Regards,

Tonino.

[Daniel]

Hello Tonino,

There is no built-in functionality to set HtmlEncode property for all columns. If suitable for you, it is possible to traverse the columns collection and assign the property to all bound columns programmatically.

foreach (GridColumn col in RadGrid4.Columns)
{
    GridBoundColumn boundCol = col as GridBoundColumn;
    if (boundCol != null)
    {
        boundCol.HtmlEncode = true;
    }
}

For autogenerated columns try the following approach:
Customizing auto-generated columns

Regards,
Daniel
Telerik by Progress

[Tonino]

Thanks Daniel for your quick reply!

Where do I have to put the code to loop throu the columns?

Regards,

Tonino.

[Daniel]

Hello Tonino,

You could try to set the HtmlEncode property on page load:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    foreach (GridColumn col in RadGrid1.Columns)
    {
        GridBoundColumn boundCol = col as GridBoundColumn;
        if (boundCol != null)
        {
            boundCol.HtmlEncode = true;
        }
    }
}

Regards,
Daniel
Telerik by Progress

[Vibhu]

Hi!
Is there a way to set HtmlEncode="true" for the whole project? Like Config or application level?

We are using the Radgrid throughout the application and want to set HtmlEncode for all the respective gridboundcolumn.

Like for
Regards,

Vibhu