how to Increase the DataGrid textbox size when edit button is clicked within datagrid.

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hi,
i am working on a project which has a datagrid,wihtin this datagrid i have 1 delete button and 1 edit botton.After clicking edit the text within the datagrid becomes available for editing Like a textbox wherein user can update or edit the existing record.
My problem is that this datagrid textbox is not wide enough to view entire line within the textbox hence i want to increase this textbox after user clicks on Edit button.

kindly help me for the same.

Posted 10-Apr-11 18:46pm

Vandana87

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in the Edit Item Template

XML

<EditItemTemplate>
 <asp:TextBox ID="txtId" runat="server" Width="80%" Height="50%"></asp:TextBox> </EditItemTemplate>

give the width and height as Required

or If You have Edit button outside of gridview then.

find that Txtbox control in Gridview and

Txtbox.width="As Required";

Posted 10-Apr-11 18:55pm

Mahendra.p25

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RaviRanjanKr 11-Apr-11 0:59am

Nice Answer! My 5 :)

Mahendra.p25 11-Apr-11 1:02am

Thanks

Vandana87 11-Apr-11 1:38am

my datagrid code is as follows -

<asp:EditCommandColumn EditText="Edit" HeaderText="Edit" CancelText="Cancel" UpdateText="Update/">

your solution didnt work for me plz guide me for same which is possible in this case.

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^That's **Aragon** · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-10T19:24:00

You can add width and height as mentioned in the above post. However as per the best practices, you should use CSS rather then static hight/width dimension.

1. Create a CSS class with required height and weidth
2. Apply that CSS in textbox. You can also re-use the same CSS for other pages/other DataGrid also.
3. Now in future if you need to change the textbox size again, then you only need to change it in CSS file and not in whole project.

For more details regarding CSS and examples please click here[^]