if you read CSS documentation, you will see you can set the overflow
behavior, which is what you want to do.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

Yes, you can using something like the following in your control:

<Columns>
   <asp:BoundField HeaderText="My Header" DataField="MyField"
HeaderStyle-Width="90px" />
</Columns>

That should force the column to be the width that you desire - by using
a unit measure of "px"... you can also use % to make it adjust to a
percentage of the window width...

Hi Alex,

Thank you for your post.

You may need to set the table-layout to 'fixed' to make sure fixed width
column working. For example:

   protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
   {
       ArrayList ar = new ArrayList();
       ar.Add("ReallylonglinewithNoSpacesAtAll!!!!!!!!!! and
anotherverylonglinelonglinelongline");
       grid1.DataSource = ar;
       grid1.DataBind();
       grid1.Style.Add("table-layout", "fixed");
   }

   protected void grid1_ItemDataBound(object sender, DataGridItemEventArgs
e)
   {
       //e.Item.Cells[0].Text = "<nobr>" + e.Item.Cells[0].Text +
"</nobr>";
       e.Item.Cells[0].Attributes.Add("WIDTH", "75px");
       e.Item.Cells[0].Attributes.Add("onmouseover",
"this.title=this.innerText;");   
   }

This will show a table cell that has 3 lines but the two long words gets
clipped. If you don't want it gets wrapped, uncomment the first statement
in ItemDataBound and only the first word gets shown and clipped.

Regards,
Walter Wang
Microsoft Online Community Support

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