Right align text in labels in a templatecolumn

texasraven · August 26th, 2003, 05:23 PM

In my datagrid, I have a template column, in which each cell has a checkbox and a label. I need to right align the text in the labels (actually they are numbers converted to string type). I tried left padding all the numbers to make them same string size, but they are sill left aligned. Any ideas?

Thanks

Here is part of the code:

Sub InstantiateIn(ByVal container As Control) Implements ITemplate.InstantiateIn

        Dim lblOrders As New Label()
        Dim cbOrders As New CheckBox()

        cbOrders.Font.Size = System.Web.UI.WebControls.FontUnit.XXSmall
        AddHandler cbOrders.DataBinding, AddressOf ItemCheckTemplate_Databinding
        container.Controls.Add(cbOrders)

        lblOrders.Font.Size = System.Web.UI.WebControls.FontUnit.XSmall
        AddHandler lblOrders.DataBinding, AddressOf ItemOrdersTemplate_Databinding
        container.Controls.Add(lblOrders)

    End Sub

    Private Sub ItemOrdersTemplate_Databinding(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)

        Dim lblTemp As Label = CType(sender, Label)
        Dim Container As DataGridItem = CType(lblTemp.NamingContainer, DataGridItem)
        Dim txtTemp As String

        txtTemp = Convert.ToString(DataBinder.Eval((CType(Container, DataGridItem)).DataItem, sOrderCol))
        txtTemp = Space(6 - txtTemp.Length) & txtTemp
       lblTemp.Text = txtTemp

planoie · August 27th, 2003, 08:44 AM

Are you trying to make it look like this? (where X is the checkbox)

Code:

Obviously using right text align in the checkbox control only puts the text on the right versus the left, so that's why I am assuming you are trying to do something more complicated.

The only way I can figure you could do this is to break up the checkbox and it's label. Have a checkbox control with no label, then a label control by itself. Put each in a cell in a table inside the data grid cell and properly align the two cells to suit your needs. Set the table to be 100% width so all the cells align left and right against the inside edge of their parent data grid cell.

Code:

<asp:TemplateColumn>
    <ItemTemplate>
        <table width="100%" border="0"><tr>
            <td align="left">
                <asp:CheckBox Runat="server" ID="chkMyCheckBox" />
            </td>
            <td align="right">
                <asp:Label Runat="server" ID="lblMyCheckBoxLabel" />
            </td>
        </tr></table>
    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateColumn>

Peter