Tooltip width not working in grid

[Craig]

Hoping there is a better work around for this.

I have a description column in a grid and I want to have a set width and not have the text wrap. I then want to have a tooltip show the full description when the user moses over the text.

The issue is that the tooltip does not recognize the width when wrap=true is set on the column. If I take the wrap off everything works fine. My solution was to create another field in my dataset that is only a fixed number of characters wide and then set the tool tip to the full description. it works but I am wondering if there is some other setting that I can still have Wrap=false and have the tooltip not stretch across the screen.

<telerik:GridTemplateColumn DataField="description" HeaderText="Description"
                        SortExpression="description" UniqueName="description" AllowFiltering="false">
                        <ItemStyle Width="160px" Wrap="false"/>
                        <HeaderStyle Width="160px" />
                        <ItemTemplate>
                            <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("partDescrip") %>'></asp:Label>
                                <telerik:RadToolTip ID="RadToolTip1" runat="server" TargetControlID="Label1"
                                    RelativeTo="Element" Position="MiddleRight" Width="175px" AutoCloseDelay="0" >
                                    <%# Eval("description") %>
                                </telerik:RadToolTip>
                        </ItemTemplate>
                    </telerik:GridTemplateColumn>

The biggest issue is that the formating of the column is not very clean because the width of each charcater is slightly differnt (kerning).

Thanks,
Craig

[Svetlina Anati]

Hello Craig,

I assume that the tooltip inherits some styles from the grid since both of them are actually TABLE elements. What I suggest is to set RenderInPageRoot="true" for the tooltip and test again whether this fixes the issue.

Greetings,
Svetlina
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[Craig]

That did it!

Thanks Svetlina.

Craig

[Svetlina Anati]

Hello Craig,

I am glad I could help! In case you experience any further problems or you have additional questions do not hesitate to contact us again.

Sincerely yours,
Svetlina
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