Question

I passed List as Model to WebGrid Constructor.

@model List<string>

@{
var grid = new WebGrid(Model);
}

<div>
@grid.GetHtml()
</div>

I am expecting to get my List of string with grid. But I got length of string. Weird?

Answer 1

That is weird, but the explanation is that the WebGrid looks for public properties of the row objects in order to display them as columns; it just so happens that Length is the only property that type String exposes.

Note that you can get your desired behavior by specifying the format explicitly:

@grid.GetHtml(
    columns: new[] {
        g.Column(format: (item) => item)
    }
)