How to force DataColumnElement display HTML?

Posted by Community Admin on 31-May-2011 00:00

Hi guys,

In the Products sample there is a declaration of column that displays the title of a product:

DataColumnElement titleColumn = new DataColumnElement(gridMode.ColumnsConfig)

Name = "Title",

HeaderText = Res.Get<Labels>().Title,

HeaderCssClass = "sfTitleCol",

ItemCssClass = "sfTitleCol",

ClientTemplate = @"<a sys:href='javascript:void(0);' sys:class="" 'sf_binderCommand_edit sfItemTitle sf' + UIStatus.toLowerCase()"">

<strong>Title</strong>

<span class='sfStatusLocation'>Status</span></a>"

;

gridMode.ColumnsConfig.Add(titleColumn);

I'd like to use a similar configuration to display description.

DataColumnElement descriptionColumn = new DataColumnElement(gridMode.ColumnsConfig)

Name = "Description",

HeaderText = Res.Get<ProductsResources>().Description,

ClientTemplate = @"Description"

;

gridMode.ColumnsConfig.Add(descriptionColumn);

The description have to be displayed with HTML formatting:

This is the first description of product.

Currently, it shows the description with HTML tags in the plain text mode:

This is the first <b>description</b> of product.

Is there a way to accomplish this?

Best regards,
Anton

Posted by Community Admin on 31-May-2011 00:00

Hello Anton,

You can try using

HeaderCssClass- Determines the css class of the header for this data item.
ItemCssClass- Determines the css class for the item.

Here is a list with all properties of the ColumnElement that you can set
All the best,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 19-Dec-2011 00:00

That's fine for style, but what if the field actually holds HTML (such as links). Is there anyway to have that HTML not be escaped?

Posted by Community Admin on 20-Dec-2011 00:00

Hi Victor,

This is the purpose of ClientTemplate . HeaderCssClass and ItemCssClass are supposed to serve only css.

Greetings,
Ivan Dimitrov
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Posted by Community Admin on 20-Dec-2011 00:00

Sorry my question was unclear. I have a field in my database called myHTML, this field can contain various links, bold, italics, etc. and is stored in the database as HTML in a string field.

In my client template I have the following string "<div>myHTML</div>".

When the grid is bound on the client, the field appears as plain text, not HTML. The HTML gets "escaped" so instead of seeing a link, I literally see the "a" tag.

If there a way to avoid this?

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