ASP.NET – formatting bound fields
Posted by Vlad on October 25, 2007
If you try something like this in a GridView or DetailsView you might end up frustrated:
<asp:BoundField DataField=”Percentage” DataFormatString=”{0:f2}%” HeaderText=” Percentage” ReadOnly=”True” SortExpression=”Percentage” />
That’s because no matter what you put in the DataFormatString property, the text is formatted the same way (although the literal characters from outside the brackets do appear, so DataFormatString it’s not completely ignored).
The solution:
<asp:BoundField DataField=”Percentage” DataFormatString=”{0:f2}%” HeaderText=” Percentage” ReadOnly=”True” SortExpression=”Percentage” HtmlEncode=”false” />
Don’t know why…
