Bold a string in c#

Vignesh Kumar

11y55.2k.NET

Hi,

How can I bold this below string. I have tried bold & string tags as well and it didn't work.

string strID = strGroupID + "-";

Please help me sort this.

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Vulpes11y ago
OK, so you only want to highlight the [GroupId] part of the column.

I suspect that the reason why it didn't work before is that you were adding the bold tags before the gridview was bound to the data-source.

I think you'll need to add them after it's been bound.

So I'd leave strID as :

string strID = strGroupID + "-";

and pass it as a parameter to your routine.

After you rebind (assuming as before that column 0 contains the ID), I'd try this code:

string strID2 = "" + strGroupID" + "" + " - ";

foreach (GridViewRow row in GridView1.Rows)
{
row.Cells[0].Text = row.Cells[0].Text.Replace(strID, strID2);
}
Vignesh Kumar11y ago
I don't have to bold the entire column and I need to highlight only the primary column value.

The below values will be inserted into a column and in this I need to highlight only [GroupID] value which comes from the string strID and this is how the result should be.

[GroupID] - GroupID, Value1,Value2,Value3
Vulpes11y ago
In that case could you just embolden the entire ID column?

For example, if the ID column has an index of 0:

GridView1.Columns[0].ItemStyle.Font.Bold = true;
Vignesh Kumar11y ago
Assuming ID as a column

I need to highlight the Primary Key column alone.

ID

[GroupID] - GroupID, Value1,Value2,Value3

My string has value [GroupID]-
Vulpes11y ago
I'd have thought that using bold tags would work when displaying text in a gridview.

If you do it directly, does this work?

GridView1.Rows[0].Cells[0].Text = strID;
Vignesh Kumar11y ago
Just an FYI. I am using the string as a parameter for insert, update operation just because I need to show this field in gridview.
Vulpes11y ago
It depends on how you display it.

If you use a LiteralControl then this should work:

string strID = "" + strGroupID + "- ";
LiteralControl1.Text = strID;