WebDataGrid HtmlEncode False Still Shows HTML Tags

Infragistics version in use: 11.2.20112.2086

Through my searching of both this form and the net at large I have been lead to believe that setting the HTMLEncode property of a column to false should render html tags when they are shown within a WebDataGrid such that:

<b>Hello</b> World

would become

Hello World

However the tags just refuse to go away in my application regardless of what I set the column’s property to.

 

Here is my set up:

We have a grid which is bound to a dataset. In the page_load function we dynamicly create all the nessisary columns for the grid based on the dataset table it is bound to.

foreach (DataColumn c in this.myDataSet.myDataTable.Columns) {

if (!c.ColumnName.StartsWith(“id_”)) { // filter out all id columns so they are not shown

BoundDataField newColumn = new Infragistics.Web.UI.GridControls.BoundDataField();

newColumn.DataFieldName = c.ColumnName;

newColumn.Header.Text = c.Caption;

newColumn.Key = c.ColumnName;

newColumn.HtmlEncode = false;

this.StikiWebGrid.DataGrid.Columns.Add(newColumn);

}

}

As you can see I have told it to sent all the columns HTMLEncode properties to false which should display the text as bold rather then showing the tags, however when I run the application I still see this.

 

Thinking that maybe setting the property within the pageload as I am doing was the culprit of the issue I have also attempted to manually add just the description field to the markup and set the property there instead. The result was the same, the tags still showed up instead of the bolded text.

<ig:WebDataGrid ID=”WebDataGrid” runat=”server” AutoGenerateColumns=”False”>

<Columns>

<ig:BoundDataField DataFieldName=”Description” Key=”Description” HtmlEncode=”false”>

<Header Text=”Help” />

</ig:BoundDataField>

</Columns>

<Behaviors></Behaviors>

</ig:WebDataGrid>

 

I am at a lost as to what I am doing incorrectly. Have I forgotten some other property somewhere on the grid perhaps? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Hi stikibjarni,

Thank you for posting in the community.

The approach which you are using seems sound and I am so far unable to replicate the issue you are experiencing. Attached is my test sample which uses 11.2.20112.2086.

Please let me know if you can reproduce the issue with this sample and whether there are any other specifics to your scenario, such as the grid being nested in other controls.

Do not hesitate to contact me with any updates and additional questions.

Hello stikibjarni,

Please feel free to contact me if you are still experiencing any issues with this scenario.