asp.net 2.0 gridview scrolling text in one column

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Phil Johnson - 06 Feb 2008 09:08 GMT

Hi

I am pretty new to asp.net gridviews.

I need to get the text in one column to scroll, I have little screen space
and one column is normally empty, but is sometimes quite long.

Has anybody done this? Can I just put a Marquee into the column to acheive
this? if so, how do I do that?

Thanks

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Michael Nemtsev [MVP] - 06 Feb 2008 09:14 GMT

Hello Phil,

Didn't understand what's your problem.
Could your please explain it detaily?

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PJ> Hi
PJ>
PJ> I am pretty new to asp.net gridviews.
PJ>
PJ> I need to get the text in one column to scroll, I have little screen
PJ> space and one column is normally empty, but is sometimes quite long.
PJ>
PJ> Has anybody done this? Can I just put a Marquee into the column to
PJ> acheive this? if so, how do I do that?
PJ>
PJ> Thanks
PJ>
PJ> Phillip Johnson (MCSD For .NET)
PJ> PJ Software Development
PJ> www.pjsoftwaredevelopment.co

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Phil Johnson - 06 Feb 2008 10:06 GMT

Hi, I have a small resolution to work to.

One column in the grid is normally empty, but if it has text the text is
long, so I want the column to be narrow but to be able to see a string that
could be around 100 characters long if need be.

My first thoughts are if I could have this cell to scroll (automatically
with no user interaction) then that will keep the column narrow but allow the
whole text to be displayed. I know to have text scrolling automatically, you
can use the Marquee element control (or you could... its a while since I used
it so I will have to check its still around) but I'm unsure how to use that
inside a cell in a gridview.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks.

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Phillip Johnson (MCSD For .NET)
PJ Software Development
www.pjsoftwaredevelopment.com

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Eliyahu Goldin - 06 Feb 2008 09:31 GMT

You can make this column templated and put the text into an html div with
overflow-y:auto.

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Phil Johnson - 06 Feb 2008 10:08 GMT

Hi Eliyha,

Thanks for the response.

The site is to displayed on TV screens though with no human interaction so I
need the text to scroll automatically.

Will you suggestion do that, or would it just display scroll bars that a
user would then have to click to scroll?

Thanks,

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Phillip Johnson (MCSD For .NET)
PJ Software Development
www.pjsoftwaredevelopment.com

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