Major problems formating a grid field

[Boris]

I'm not sure where to begin with this one.

I have a RadGrid with a bound text field that is 2000 char long in the DB.  The user can go into the popup and edit it with the RadEditor (and basically do anything he or she wants with color and size.)

What I'd like to be able to do is perhaps display only the first 20-30 characters of the field in the grid in a fixed length column with no wrap and fixed font size (and no colors.)

Is it possible to do this in the properties or do I need to use CSS?

What I don't want is what I've put in the picture.

How do I do this?

[Galin]

Hi Boris,

Thank you for contacting us.

You can achieve this by using template column, e.g.

Markup

<telerik:GridTemplateColumn>
    <ItemTemplate>
        <span class="myText" title='<%#DataBinder.Eval(Container, "DataItem.Name")%>'><%#DataBinder.Eval(Container, "DataItem.Name").ToString().Substring(0, 20) + "..."%></span>
    </ItemTemplate>
</telerik:GridTemplateColumn>

CSS

.myText
{
    color: Red;
    font-size: 12px;
    white-space:nowrap;
}

Please do not hesitate to contact us if other questions or problems arise.

All the best,
Galin
the Telerik team

[Boris]

Actually I just found an entirely different solution at: http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/aspnet-ajax/grid/displaying-rich-text-as-plain-text-in-radgrid-column.aspx

Then I call it in ItemDataBound.

But thanks!