Item Template using a label does not render tabs

[Laura]

I have a grid with gridtemplatecolumns and each column has an item template of a label and and edit template of a textbox. HEre is my column:

<telerik:GridTemplateColumn DataField="contact_name" HeaderText="Contact Name"
                                            UniqueName="contact_name">
    <ItemTemplate>
      <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server"  Text='<% #Eval("contact_name") %>'> </asp:Label>

   </ItemTemplate>
    <EditItemTemplate>
      <asp:TextBox ID="contact_name" runat="server" Text='<%#Eval("contact_name") %>'  Width="200px"></asp:TextBox>
        <font color="blue">*</font>
          <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="contactnameRequiredFieldValidator"
                runat="server" ControlToValidate="contact_name"  Display="Dynamic"                                                    ErrorMessage="required"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
     </EditItemTemplate>
 </telerik:GridTemplateColumn>

 The data it is retrieving has a tab in it, so for example "contact_name" is made up of first_name last_name (tab) contact_type
and in the edititemtemplate textbox, the tab is there, but in the label, the tab is not there. Does labels render tabs? And if not, is there another control I can use for the ItemTemplate to show the tabs?

Thanks,
Laura

[Dimo]

Hello Laura,

The default browser behavior is to treat any kind of empty space in the HTML output ("spacebar space", new line, tab, etc) or a number of consecutive empty spaces as one "spacebar space". In order to change this, you should use the white-space CSS style or the pre HTML element

white-space CSS property

pre HTML element

Note that the <pre> element has a predefined font styles, so you may want to add some custom font styles with external CSS or a sttyle tag, e.g.

pre
{
       font:12px arial,sans-serif;
}

or

<ItemTemplate>
     <pre style="font:12px arial,sans-serif"><asp:Label .... /></pre>
</ItemTemplate>


Sincerely yours,
Dimo
the Telerik team

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