GridView databinding event handler

compninja25

Hi All, I'm having a problem with a gridview that I am dynamically creating with my code behind. I have a multiline textbox for users to input data that is then displayed in the gridview. When the gridview databinds with the table, it is not displaying the new lines. I've found a lot of articles online showing how to fix this by setting HTMLEncode = "false", however because I'm not using any bound fields I don't think that applies for this situation. I'm thinking I might be able to resolve this by catching the text being read in from the file during the databind and doing a Text.Replace(Environment.NewLine, "
") which would display them correctly in the cells without actually modifying the saved text in my saved file on the server.

GridView gv1 = new GridView();
gv1.Width = 600;
gv1.DataSource = Table1;
gv1.DataBind();

    gv1.HeaderRow.Height = 50;
    gv1.HeaderRow.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Black;
    gv1.HeaderRow.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
    gv1.RowStyle.Height = 100;

Can someone give me a quick example of how I could wire this up in the code behind? Thanks!

"You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you dont" - Bart Simpson

Christian Graus

I'd imagine an onitemdatabound event handler, and you'd find the textbox in each row and replace the NewLine with a br tag.

Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

compninja25

Hey Christian, I really like your Quote "Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista". I'm about to that point myself using Vista x64, however I might go for one of the Linux flavors ;) Do you have an example of how I would find the textbox in each row? I'm creating the gridview dynamically because the columns will change depending on the date each week.

GridView gv1 = new GridView();
gv1.Width = 600;
gv1.DataSource = Table1;
gv1.DataBind();

    gv1.HeaderRow.Height = 50;
    gv1.HeaderRow.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Black;
    gv1.HeaderRow.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
    gv1.RowStyle.Height = 100;

    GridView gv2 = new GridView();
    gv2.Width = 780;        
    gv2.DataSource = Table2;
    gv2.DataBind();
            
    switch (DateTime.Today.DayOfWeek.ToString())
    {
        case "Monday":
            gv2.Rows\[0\].Cells\[0\].BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Aqua;
            break;
        case "Tuesday":
            gv2.Rows\[0\].Cells\[1\].BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Aqua;
            break;
        case "Wednesday":
            gv2.Rows\[0\].Cells\[2\].BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Aqua;
            break;
        case "Thursday":
            gv2.Rows\[0\].Cells\[3\].BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Aqua;
            break;
        case "Friday":
            gv2.Rows\[0\].Cells\[4\].BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Aqua;
            break;
    }
    
    gv2.HeaderRow.Height = 50;
    gv2.HeaderRow.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Black;
    gv2.HeaderRow.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
    gv2.RowStyle.Height = 175;       

    GridView gv3 = new GridView();
    gv3.Width = 600;
    gv3.DataSource = Table3;
    gv3.DataBind();
    
    gv3.HeaderRow.Height = 50;
    gv3.HeaderRow.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Black;
    gv3.HeaderRow.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
    gv3.RowStyle.Height = 100;        

    Panel1.Controls.Add(gv1);        
    Panel1.Controls.Add(gv2);
    Panel1.Controls.Add(gv3);

"You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you dont" - Bart Simpson