1 <p>This is a neat trick to get a tooltip when a user hovers over a row in a gridview. It is very simple and uses standards.</p> <p>Simply attach something like this to the GridView's RowDataBound event:</p> <pre name="code" class="csharp"> protected void GridViewEligibleProducts_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e) { if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow) { // get the row view to be able to access data from the binding object DataRowView drv = (DataRowView)e.Row.DataItem; // lets me type safe, optional ProductsSvc.DSProducts.AgencyEligibleProductsRow thisRow = (ProductsSvc.DSProducts.AgencyEligibleProductsRow)drv.Row; // this is the magic to get the tooltip. You could put anything as the 2nd parameter e.Row.Attributes.Add("title", (thisRow.IsdescriptionNull() ? "" : thisRow.description)); } } </pre> 2009-04-21T11:21:55-07:00 30 2009-04-21T11:27:31-07:00