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HTML-like Text Formatting

Html-like formatting is a feature of Telerik Presentation Framework and therefore it can be also used in RadGridView. The screenshot below demonstrates the color tag applied to RadGridView cells:

WinForms RadGridView HTML-like Text Formatting

Tags are only parsed if DisableHTMLRendering is set to false. If you skip that, all tags will be shown as text. In the code snippet, HTML rendering is only enabled for the first column:

HTML-like text formatting

DataTable t = new DataTable();
t.Columns.Add("A");
t.Rows.Add("<html> ID: <color= 0, 0, 255> 1");
t.Rows.Add("<html> ID: <color= 0, 255, 0> 2");
t.Rows.Add("<html> ID: <color= 255, 0, 0> 3");
this.radGridView1.DataSource = t;
this.radGridView1.Columns[0].DisableHTMLRendering = false;

Dim t As New DataTable()
t.Columns.Add("A")
t.Rows.Add("<html> ID: <color= 0, 0, 255> 1")
t.Rows.Add("<html> ID: <color= 0, 255, 0> 2")
t.Rows.Add("<html> ID: <color= 255, 0, 0> 3")
Me.RadGridView1.DataSource = t
Me.RadGridView1.Columns(0).DisableHTMLRendering = False

Please refer to HTML-like Text formatting topic in Telerik Presentation Framework section for the list of support tags.

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