hyphenation in column text

[Jack Peacock]

I have a datagrid that displays records from a JET 4 (Access XP) database.
It works fine but in columns where a "-" is embedded in the text, like
serial numbers in the format 123-456, apparently the datagrid control
converts the "-" plain hyphen into an HTML soft hyphen, forcing the text
into two lines. Is there a way to stop or work around this?
Jack Peacock

[Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]]

It sounds like you want to tell the datagrid to use nowrap for the
tablecell(s). Would that work?


"Jack Peacock" <peacock@simconv.com> wrote in message
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>I have a datagrid that displays records from a JET 4 (Access XP) database.
> It works fine but in columns where a "-" is embedded in the text, like
> serial numbers in the format 123-456, apparently the datagrid control
> converts the "-" plain hyphen into an HTML soft hyphen, forcing the text
> into two lines. Is there a way to stop or work around this?
> Jack Peacock
>
>

[Jack Peacock]

"Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]" <BANSPAMken_cox@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> It sounds like you want to tell the datagrid to use nowrap for the
> tablecell(s). Would that work?
>

That was the obvious thing to do, but it doesn't work. I disabled word wrap
for all columns, no luck. My guess is that the process of rendering the
data into XML converts dashes embedded in text into soft hyphens, which
forces a break in HTML when it goes out to the browser.
Jack Peacock

[Jack Peacock]

Here is an example of the text wrap problem:
<asp:BoundColumn DataField="SlotID" SortExpression="SlotID"
ReadOnly="True" HeaderText="Serial #">
< ItemStyle Wrap="False" Height="20px" Width="60px"></ItemStyle>
</asp:BoundColumn>

This column in the datagrid works fine if the text does not contain an
embedded '-' dash. If a dash is present, for instance '87654-2' the column
in the datagrid will break after the '-', putting the '2' on a second line
even though wrap is turned off.

Has anyone else seen this behavior in tables or datagrids? According to the
HTML 4 manual a plain hyphen (the '-' dash) should not cause a line break.

The MS knowledge base indicates there is a bug in datagrids regarding word
wrap (323169). It indicates wrap should be turned off in the ItemStyle
entry instead of the row, which I put in as above, but the text still wraps.
Has anyone else seen this problem? It can be duplicated with <td> HTML
entries outside a datagrid. I'm using VS 2003 and Framework 1.1 updated as
of end of January.
Jack Peacock

[Jack Peacock]

"Jack Peacock" <peacock@simconv.com> wrote in message
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> "Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]" <BANSPAMken_cox@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:emyGqKF8DHA.3448@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

> > It sounds like you want to tell the datagrid to use nowrap for the
> > tablecell(s). Would that work?
> >

> That was the obvious thing to do, but it doesn't work. I disabled word

wrap

> for all columns, no luck. My guess is that the process of rendering the
> data into XML converts dashes embedded in text into soft hyphens, which
> forces a break in HTML when it goes out to the browser.
>

Problem solved with much experimentation. It turns out that the dash was
misleading. The text break was casued by the string not fitting into the
preset width. Since a line break was needed the logical place to split the
text was at the dash. The datagrid control applied this to every column
with a dash, even though only one element did not fit. Once I made the
column width larger the wrap disappeared.

The unexpected behavior was that 1) the "wrap" style element didn't control
this behavior, and 2) it was applied to every row, including those that did
not need to be wrapped.
Jack Peacock

[Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]]

Hi Jack,

Thanks for reporting back. Somewhere down the road, someone with the same
problem with search the issue, hit this thread and find out what to do.

Ken

"Jack Peacock" <peacock@simconv.com> wrote in message
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> "Jack Peacock" <peacock@simconv.com> wrote in message
> news:eDJgjHL8DHA.2168@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

>> "Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]" <BANSPAMken_cox@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>> news:emyGqKF8DHA.3448@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

>> > It sounds like you want to tell the datagrid to use nowrap for the
>> > tablecell(s). Would that work?
>> >

>> That was the obvious thing to do, but it doesn't work. I disabled word

> wrap

>> for all columns, no luck. My guess is that the process of rendering the
>> data into XML converts dashes embedded in text into soft hyphens, which
>> forces a break in HTML when it goes out to the browser.
>>

> Problem solved with much experimentation. It turns out that the dash was
> misleading. The text break was casued by the string not fitting into the
> preset width. Since a line break was needed the logical place to split
> the
> text was at the dash. The datagrid control applied this to every column
> with a dash, even though only one element did not fit. Once I made the
> column width larger the wrap disappeared.
>
> The unexpected behavior was that 1) the "wrap" style element didn't
> control
> this behavior, and 2) it was applied to every row, including those that
> did
> not need to be wrapped.
> Jack Peacock
>
>

[Alvin Bruney [MVP]]

have you tried wrapping the entire contents in brackets?

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"Jack Peacock" <peacock@simconv.com> wrote in message
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> Here is an example of the text wrap problem:
> <asp:BoundColumn DataField="SlotID" SortExpression="SlotID"
> ReadOnly="True" HeaderText="Serial #">
> < ItemStyle Wrap="False" Height="20px" Width="60px"></ItemStyle>
> </asp:BoundColumn>
>
> This column in the datagrid works fine if the text does not contain an
> embedded '-' dash. If a dash is present, for instance '87654-2' the

column

> in the datagrid will break after the '-', putting the '2' on a second line
> even though wrap is turned off.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behavior in tables or datagrids? According to

the

> HTML 4 manual a plain hyphen (the '-' dash) should not cause a line break.
>
> The MS knowledge base indicates there is a bug in datagrids regarding word
> wrap (323169). It indicates wrap should be turned off in the ItemStyle
> entry instead of the row, which I put in as above, but the text still

wraps.

> Has anyone else seen this problem? It can be duplicated with <td> HTML
> entries outside a datagrid. I'm using VS 2003 and Framework 1.1 updated

as

> of end of January.
> Jack Peacock
>
>