Localizing the Grid Messages

Updated on Oct 7, 2026

Localizing the tooltips

Telerik RadGrid provides the following properties for localization of the hard-coded tooltips:

Localizing grid tooltips

Setting	Description
ExpandTooltip	The tooltip that will be displayed over the expand child tables button.
CollapseTooltip	The tooltip that will be displayed over the collapse child tables button.
GridGroupingSettings - RadGrid.GroupingSettings	Settings for grouping messages.
GroupContinuesFormatString	The group header message, indicating that the group continues on the next page.
GroupContinuedFormatString	The group header message, indicating that the group continues from the previous page.
ExpandTooltip	The tooltip that will be displayed over the expand groups button.
CollapseTooltip	The tooltip that will be displayed over the collapse groups button.
UnGroupTooltip	The tooltip that will be displayed over the items in the group panel.
GridGroupPanelSettings - RadGrid.GroupPanel	Settings for the group panel.
Text	The text that will be rendered inside the group panel when visible.
GridClientMessages - RadGrid.ClientSettings.ClientMessages	Settings for client-side messages.
DropHereToReorder	The tooltip that will be displayed when you start dragging a column.
DragToGroupOrReorder	The tooltip that will be displayed when you hover a column header of draggable column.
DragToResize	The tooltip that will be displayed when you hover the resizing handle of a column.
PagerTooltipFormatString	The tooltip that will be displayed when you hover the vertical scroll when virtual scrolling is enabled. The format is "Page {0} of {1}"
GridSortingSettings - RadGrid.SortingSettings	Settings for sorting messages.
SortToolTip	The tooltip that will be displayed when you hover the sorting button and there is no sorting applied.
SortedAscToolTip	The tooltip that will be displayed when you hover the sorting button and the column is sorted ascending.
SortedDescToolTip	The tooltip that will be displayed when you hover the sorting button and the column is sorted descending.

Localizing the GridTableView messages

Telerik RadGrid provides the following properties for customizing the messages related to GridTableView.

Localizing GridTableView messages

Property	Description
NoMasterRecordsText	The text displayed in the NoRecordsTemplate when the MasterTableView has no records.
NoDetailRecordsText	The text that will be displayed in the NoRecordsTemplate when there are no records in the Detail tables.

Localizing the GridStatusBarItem messages

Localizing GridStatusBarItem messages

Property	Description
ReadyText	The text displayed when RadGrid is not performing an AJAX request.
LoadingText	The text displayed when RadGrid is performing an AJAX request.

Localizing GridPagerItem messages

Pager message properties

Property	Description
PrevPageToolTip	The tooltip displayed over the previous page button.
PrevPagesToolTip	The tooltip displayed over the previous pages button.
NextPageToolTip	The tooltip displayed over the next page button.
NextPagesToolTip	The tooltip displayed over the next pages button.
PagerTooltipFormatString	The tooltip displayed when dragging the vertical scroll with virtual scrolling enabled. Changes also apply to the text under the RadGrid slider pager.
PageTextFormat	The text displayed in the grid pager.

See Also

• Localizing Edit Command Column

• Localizing the Command Item

• Localizing the Grid Headers