How to increase the width of a GridBoundColumn

[Jonas]

Hello,

I created a custom control that inherits from GridBoundColumn and that adds an icon after the text of the cell.

My problem occurs when I use this column in a grid (I does not specify “HeaderStyle-width” in order that the grid itself sets the column width for all columns). As you can see in the attachment, sometimes it happens that the icon goes to the next line.

Can we ensure that this column has always a width of 10px more than the value calculated by the grid ?

[Princy]

Hi Jonas,

You try to prevent the wrapping for column cells content in order to display the full content. Please take a look at the following documentation No Wrap for Grid Cell Content

Thanks,
Princy

[Jonas]

Thank you for the reply.

So I did :
<ceg:MailReadOnlyColumn DataField="Courriel" HeaderText="Courriel" UniqueName="Courriel" DataFormatString="<nobr>{0}</nobr>"></ceg:MailReadOnlyColumn>

But it not working because the balise <nobr></nobr> isn't put in the <td></td> (see the attachment)

[Princy]

Hi Jonas,

Can you please share your full code snippet so as to replicate this issue.

Thanks,
Princy

[Jonas]

Hi Princy,

I found another way to resolve my problem. I used "HtmlGenericControl("nobr") in the CreateChildControls of my custom column and it works.

Thank you !