Question

I have some text being fetched from the DB, which I am binding to the DataList ItemTemplate in the following form:

<asp:LinkButton runat="server" Text='<%#Eval("url")%>' />

The text that is fetched from the DB might be long and I want to restrict it to (let’s say 50 chars at max. with a … afterwards) in the above eval assignment.

How can this be done here?
Secondly, how do I specify the link here in LinkButton so that on clicking on it, it goes to the specified, the link should open in a new window as in taget=_blank

Answer 1

You can use a tag directly

<a href='<%#Eval("url")%>' taget=_blank> <%# BindText(Eval("url"))%></a>

Codebehind:

public string BindText(obj url)
{
 if(url!=null) {return (url.ToString().length > 50) ? url.ToString().Substring(0,50) + '...': url.ToString() ;}
 return "";
}