Disabling HTMLencode in ASP.NET and C#

Question

I am using DataTable to populate data in GridView in ASP.NET I am trying to place a line break in a cell inside the DataGrid View I used

   "data1+<br>+data2"

to place a line break.I am manipulating this data from C# which is being generated dynamically. Because of HTML encoding
is replaced as

 lt;brgt;

So please tell me how to disable that html encoding if possible for that gridView.

@codeCaster Is this a duplicate? Can you show me the answer then? — Abhinav Konda, Jul 03 '14 at 12:41
Click the link on top of your question, the duplicate contains 4 answers. If you think none of them answers your question, please update your question with how exactly you print the data to your DataGridView. — CodeCaster, Jul 03 '14 at 12:42

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 03 '14 at 12:30

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There is a option available in Boundfield of your grid view. HtmlEncode="false"

The code in my case

<asp:BoundField DataField="timeStamp" HeaderText="timeStamp" HtmlEncode="false" />

answered Jul 03 '14 at 12:30

Ondipuli

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I didnot find the BoundField in GridView properties I am using Visual Studio 2010 – Abhinav Konda Jul 03 '14 at 12:39
BoundField is part of Gridview columns. Can you post the part of your code, to get a clear picture? – Ondipuli Jul 03 '14 at 12:56

Bharadwaj · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-03T13:01:21.047

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TemplateField allows you to add html inside a cell, as

<asp:GridView ID="gv" runat="server" AutogenerateColumns = "false">
 <columns>
    <asp:BoundField DataField="col_name" HeaderText="Header"/>
    <asp:TemplateField>
      <ItemTemplate>
         '<%#Eval("data1")%>'
          <br/>
         '<%#Eval("data2")%>'
      </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:TemplateField>
 <columns>
</asp:GridView>

edited Jul 03 '14 at 13:01

answered Jul 03 '14 at 12:32

Bharadwaj

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How can I place it inside a data cell? – Abhinav Konda Jul 03 '14 at 12:40
`TemplateField` itself a data cell. – Bharadwaj Jul 03 '14 at 12:41
I think you are populating using `BoundedField`, replace it with the above code, if you have `data1` and `data2` as separate columns in your datatable. – Bharadwaj Jul 03 '14 at 12:43
wHERE CAN i FIND THAT IN MY vISUAL sTUDIO under the designer->grid view->properties? – Abhinav Konda Jul 03 '14 at 12:45
WOW. Switch to `Source` mode for your `.aspx` or `.ascx` file. For `GridView`, set `AutogenerateColumns = "false"`. Then add all coloumns you want, including the above. – Bharadwaj Jul 03 '14 at 12:47
Data source for that data grid view is going to be a data table. – Abhinav Konda Jul 03 '14 at 12:51
No problem. `data1` and `data2` should be columns in that data table. – Bharadwaj Jul 03 '14 at 12:54
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/56712/discussion-between-abhinav-konda-and-bharadwaj). – Abhinav Konda Jul 03 '14 at 12:55

Disabling HTMLencode in ASP.NET and C#

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