How to Prevent Word Wrap in an ASP.NET GridView

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Recently I came across an interesting answer by Jason, where he suggests how to stop word wrap in an ASP.NET GridView. I thought of sharing this trick with the viewers facing similar issues:

The trick is to use

<td style="WORD-BREAK:BREAK-ALL;">

Check this sample:

<style type="text/css">
.DisplayDesc { width:500px;word-break : break-all }
.DisplayDiv { width:500px; OVERFLOW:hidden;
              TEXT-OVERFLOW:ellipsis}
</style> 

 <asp:TemplateField>
 <ItemStyle Font-Names="Tahoma" Font-Size="X-Small" 
 HorizontalAlign="Left" 
    Wrap="True" />
    <ItemTemplate>
    <div class="DisplayDiv">
            <asp:Label CssClass="DisplayDesc" ID="Label1" 
            runat="server" 
        Text='<%# Bind("SomeLongText") %>'></asp:Label>
    </div>
    </ItemTemplate>
 </asp:TemplateField>

I am sure there are many developers who had this problem in the past without a decent solution. Let me know if it worked for you!

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Suprotim Agarwal, Developer Technologies MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) is the founder and contributor for DevCurry, DotNetCurry and SQLServerCurry. He is the Chief Editor of a Developer Magazine called DNC Magazine. He has also authored two Books - 51 Recipes using jQuery with ASP.NET Controls. and The Absolutely Awesome jQuery CookBook.

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