Shorten/Camouflage very large text within a grid

Question

I have this grid line that takes the description of a message, but it is very large sometimes and is breaking the grid layout, I wonder if it is possible to shorten the message and/ or camouflage the message in link.

That is to take the message and replace with a Visualise

Follows code:

<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="ÚLTIMA MENSAGEM">
      <ItemStyle HorizontalAlign="Center" />
<ItemTemplate>
     <a href="cicloObjetivo.aspx?Cod=<%# Eval("OcIDescr")%>" style="color: #0000FF;">
          <%# Eval("OcIDescr").ToString()%>'</a>
 </ItemTemplate>
   </asp:TemplateField>

Grid:

Answer 1

A suggestion for you:

• In the class you own the description property (Ocidescr) you can add a new property that would be the short description, when the user click on it you would open a modal showing the full text.

  public string OcIDescrResumida
  {
      get
      {
          return !string.isNullOrWhiteSpace(OcIDescr) ? OcIDescr.Substring(0, 20) + "..." : string.empty
      }
  }
  

Don’t forget to replace your code snippet to use this new property.