Column Width

[Fred]

What am I doing wrong. I have a grid with several columns. One column is text OCRed from a page and can be up to 2k alpha numeric character. Obviously I only want to show the first 50 or so. I'ved tried many suggestions but nothing seems to work. Here is the code for the one column:

 

 

GridBoundColumn gridColumn = new GridBoundColumn();

 

RadGrid1.MasterTableView.Columns.Add(gridColumn);

gridColumn.DataFormatString =

 

"<nobr>{0}</nobr>";

 

gridColumn.DataField = dataColumn.ColumnName;

gridColumn.HeaderText = dataColumn.ColumnName;

gridColumn.HeaderStyle.Width =

 

Unit.Pixel(125);

 

gridColumn.ItemStyle.Width =

 

Unit.Pixel(125);

 

gridColumn.FooterStyle.Width =

 

Unit.Pixel(125);

 

[Princy]

Hello Fred,

I am not quite sure about the issue that doesn't seems to work for you.Here is the following code snippet which I tried and worked as expected.

protected void Page_Init(object sender, EventArgs e)

  {
        ....  ....  ....   ....    ....


     GridBoundColumn gridColumn = new GridBoundColumn();

     RadGrid1.MasterTableView.Columns.Add(gridColumn);

     gridColumn.DataField = "ColumnName";

     gridColumn.HeaderText = "ColumnName";

     gridColumn.UniqueName = "ColumnName";

     gridColumn.DataFormatString = "<nobr>{0}</nobr>";

     gridColumn.ItemStyle.Width = Unit.Pixel(500);
       ....  ....  ....   ....    ....


  }

Thanks,
Princy.

[Sebastian]

Hi guys,

Also verify that you enabled column resizing for the grid as illustrated on this demo:
http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/grid/examples/client/resizing/defaultcs.aspx (see the available configuration options via the checkboxes, too)

Best,
Sebastian
the Telerik team

[Fred]

when I turn set resizable to true then I get even sizing for all the other columns. I guess I lose the luxury of the auto column sizing and will have to specify it for each column.