How to set the DataGridViewCell to automatically word wrap?

Question

The code below which I found on MSN did not worked to automatically word-wrap a cell:

dataGridView.Columns[0].AutoSizeMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode.DisplayedCells;

dataGridView.Columns[0].DefaultCellStyle.WrapMode = DataGridViewTriState.True;

Any more answer?

Possible duplicate of [How to set DataGridView textbox column to multi-line?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1559867/how-to-set-datagridview-textbox-column-to-multi-line) — KyleMit, Nov 04 '15 at 21:03
I found AutoSizeMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode.Fill worked better for me — Matthew, Mar 15 '18 at 01:42

score 33 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '11 at 05:52

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You also need to set DataGridView.AutoSizeRowsMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeRowsMode.AllCells (along with what you have done) for word-wrap to work.

answered Jan 31 '11 at 05:52

VinayC

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score 13 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 08 '15 at 06:03

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This may help someone.

If you need target specific columns use the below as what is int he question will not work, as items is not available in c# 4.5

dataGridView1.DefaultCellStyle.WrapMode = DataGridViewTriState.True;
dataGridView1.Columns[2].AutoSizeMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode.DisplayedCells;
dataGridView1.Columns[2].DefaultCellStyle.WrapMode = DataGridViewTriState.True;

edited Jun 08 '15 at 06:03

Imran Ali Khan

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answered Jan 30 '15 at 11:37

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score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 26 '18 at 11:48

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Just Add This Lines in form_Load Method

this.dataGridView1.DefaultCellStyle.WrapMode = DataGridViewTriState.True;

answered Apr 26 '18 at 11:48

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score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Oct 06 '13 at 09:38

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just include the second line in code..... like in my code ... it is working perfectly

da.Fill(dtusers);

dataGridView1.DataSource = dtusers;
// dataGridView1.AutoResizeColumns(DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode.AllCells);
dataGridView1.DefaultCellStyle.WrapMode = DataGridViewTriState.True;

edited Oct 06 '13 at 09:38

Chris

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answered Oct 06 '13 at 09:17

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 31 '17 at 02:23

You could also make it, in this way

DataGridViewTextBoxColumn comments = new DataGridViewTextBoxColumn();
{
    comments.Name = "comments";
    comments.HeaderText = "Comments";
    comments.AutoSizeMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode.AllCells;
    comments.DefaultCellStyle.WrapMode = DataGridViewTriState.True;
    this.dataGridView1.Columns.Add(comments);
}

How to set the DataGridViewCell to automatically word wrap?

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