Question

My item template in gridview is marked up like this.

Where do I add the

 tags? 


<ItemTemplate>  

  <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text='<% Eval("datacol") %>' 
  </asp:Label> 

</ItemTemplate> 

Answer 1

Since I realize this is related to your previous question: ASP.Net Binding to Gridview Strips some space (whitespace characters)

Please refer to my answer in that question. The same principle could be used to add any type of tags around your DataBound values. For this specific question, an approach like this could accomplish what you want.

protected void gbGridWithSpaces_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
    foreach (TableCell cell in e.Row.Cells)
    {
        cell.Text = "<pre>" + cell.Text + "</pre>";
    }
}