Tooltip with line feed

[Tracy]

Hi,

I have created a dynamic tooltip for a radcombobox with checkboxes.  As items in the combobox are checked or unchecked I change the tooltip for the combobox to the items that are selected.  I have been able to get this to work successfully using the following code.

Private Sub rcbCompany_ItemChecked(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As Telerik.Web.UI.RadComboBoxItemEventArgs) Handles rcbCompany.ItemChecked

       prpSelectedCount = Me.rcbCompany.GetCheckedIndices.Count
       Dim strToolTipField = IIf(prpDisplayType = "Name", e.Item.Text, e.Item.Value.ToString)

       If e.Item.Checked = True Then
           'If an item has been checked, add the company number to the prpSelectedValue list and the company code/name to the prpToolTip list.
           prpSelectedValue = prpSelectedValue + "," + e.Item.Attributes("CompanyNumber")
           prpToolTip = prpToolTip + strToolTipField

       Else
           'If no companies are check set prpSelectedValue and the prpToolTip to Nothing,
           If prpSelectedCount = 0 Then
               prpSelectedValue = ""
               prpToolTip = ""
           Else
               'otherwise remove the unchecked company from the prpSelectedValue property
               prpSelectedValue = prpSelectedValue.Replace("," + e.Item.Attributes("CompanyNumber"), "")
               prpToolTip = prpToolTip.Replace(";" + strToolTipField, "")
           End If
       End If

       'Remove the extra comma, if any at the beginning of the string
       If prpSelectedValue.StartsWith(",") = True Then
           prpSelectedValue = prpSelectedValue.Remove(0, 1)
       End If

       If prpToolTip.StartsWith(";") = True Then
           prpToolTip = prpToolTip.Remove(0, 1)
       End If

       Me.rcbCompany.ToolTip = prpToolTip
       rttManagerCompany.TargetControls.Clear()
       rttManagerCompany.TargetControls.Add(Me.rcbCompany.ClientID, True)

       RaiseEvent OnItemCheckedCompanyHandler(sender, e)
   End Sub

Private Sub rttManagerCompany_AjaxUpdate(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As Telerik.Web.UI.ToolTipUpdateEventArgs) Handles rttManagerCompany.AjaxUpdate
       Dim lblToolTip As New Label()
       lblToolTip.Text = prpToolTip
       e.UpdatePanel.ContentTemplateContainer.Controls.Add(lblToolTip)
   End Sub

My problem becomes when I try to put in a new line in the tooltip text to separate the selected items.
I changed the tooltip expression to

prpToolTip = prpToolTip + "<br/>" + strToolTipField. 
After I added the new line character(<br/>) I get the following error.
Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerServerErrorException: An unknown error occurred while processing the request on the server. The status code returned from the server was: 500

As a test to see if it was my generated tooltip that was causing the problem, I changed the lblToolTip.Text in the rttManagerCompany_AjaxUpdate to "line1 <br/> line2" and I still get the error.  If I remove the <br/> I do not get an error and the tooltip displays as line1line2. 

Can anyone tell me how to get a new line in the tooltip.

Thank you for your help.
Tracy

After I add the new line

[Marin Bratanov]

Hi Tracy,

This is a strange report. Adding a new line like this should work, it is merely the text of a span element in this case. I tried it in a simple page and it works fine with me. I am attaching it here as a reference along with a video from my experiment.

The error you get is a server error and this means it may not be related to the tooltipmanager, but to something else in the code. I advise that you debug your code-behind to see where exactly the error is thrown and how to fix it.

In the meantime you can also try escaping the br tag, e.g. &lt;br /&gt;


Regards,
Marin Bratanov
the Telerik team

[Tracy]

Hi Marin,
Thank you for your response.  For some reason I was only able to fix my problem by setting the ValidateRequest=false on the page.  Maybe because I am putting the tooltip inside a user control.

Thank You

Tracy