How do I properly show a link in a GridViewHyperlinkColumn

5 posts, 1 answers
  1. Pavel
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    Sep 2016

    Posted 27 Jan 2017 Link to this post

    I want to be able to show a link, but have the display text be something different.

    This is what I want to see <a href="http://www.googe.com">Google</html>

    What's the correct way to do that? Preferably without having to override some on row creating event.

  3. Dimitar
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    Posted 30 Jan 2017 Link to this post

    Hi Pavel,

    To show HTML links you can use the HTML-like text formatting with a regular textbox column. Please note that each value must start with the "<html>" tag. In addition, you need to set the DisableHTMLRendering property to false:
    private void RadGridView1_CellFormatting(object sender, Telerik.WinControls.UI.CellFormattingEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Column.Name == "Name")
        {
           e.CellElement.DisableHTMLRendering = false;
        }
        else
        {
            e.CellElement.DisableHTMLRendering = true;
        }
        
    }

    I hope this information is useful. Let me know if you need further assistance.

    Regards,
    Dimitar
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  5. Pavel
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    Posted 30 Jan 2017 in reply to Dimitar Link to this post

    What about actually setting the HTML text?

    Do I need to create a custom field in my data source that will contain HTML?

    Or is there a way to say something like this $"<a href='{LinkUrl}">{LinkTitle}</html>"

  7. Answer
    Dimitar
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    Posted 31 Jan 2017 Link to this post

    Hi Pavel, 

    You can set the string in the CellFormatting event as well:
    private void RadGridView1_CellFormatting(object sender, Telerik.WinControls.UI.CellFormattingEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Column.Name == "Name")
        {
            string LinkUrl = "www.google.com";
            string LinkTitle = "GOOGLE";
     
            e.CellElement.Text = $"<html> <a href=\"{LinkUrl}\" >{ LinkTitle}";
            e.CellElement.DisableHTMLRendering = false;
        }
           
     
    }

    I hope this will be useful. 

    Regards,
    Dimitar
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  9. Pavel
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    Posted 31 Jan 2017 in reply to Dimitar Link to this post

    So, that's not quite as clean as I wanted, so I just added a property to Model class called UrlHtml that returns the properly formatted strring.
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