Question : Gridview-only show first 10 characters of text.

I have gridview which displays text from a database. Sometimes the text is very long, therefore I would like to only display the first 10 characters of text followed by some dots.

For example instead of having sdsadsadasdsadasdsaasdasdsadsadsa sadasdasdas i coul have aswredsawq.....

Answer : Gridview-only show first 10 characters of text.

what about doing that in the query itself?
what is the database?

in ms sql server:

                       
             SELECT CASE WHEN LEN(yourfield) > 10 THEN SUBSTRING(yourfield, 1,10) + '...' ELSE yourfield END yourfield_short
  FROM yourtable
 WHERE ...

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Question : Gridview-only show first 10 characters of text.

I have gridview which displays text from a database. Sometimes the text is very long, therefore I would like to only display the first 10 characters of text followed by some dots. For example instead of having sdsadsadasdsadasdsaasdasdsadsadsa sadasdasdas i coul have aswredsawq.....

Answer : Gridview-only show first 10 characters of text.

what about doing that in the query itself?what is the database?in ms sql server: 1: 2: 3: SELECT CASE WHEN LEN(yourfield) > 10 THEN SUBSTRING(yourfield, 1,10) + '...' ELSE yourfield END yourfield_short FROM yourtable WHERE ... Open in New Window Select All

I have gridview which displays text from a database. Sometimes the text is very long, therefore I would like to only display the first 10 characters of text followed by some dots.

For example instead of having sdsadsadasdsadasdsaasdasdsadsadsa sadasdasdas i coul have aswredsawq.....

what about doing that in the query itself?
what is the database?

in ms sql server:

1: 2: 3:

SELECT CASE WHEN LEN(yourfield) > 10 THEN SUBSTRING(yourfield, 1,10) + '...' ELSE yourfield END yourfield_short FROM yourtable WHERE ...

Open in New Window

Select All