How to conditionally display text string in Eval - C#

Asked Jan 06 '15 at 15:53

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I have a div in which i assign some text using the following dynamic text.

<div class="name"><%#Eval("Name")%></div>

Now i want to add '...' if the length of the parmater 'Name' > 12. I tried the following code but it fails.

<% #Eval("Name").ToString().Length <= 12 ? Eval("Name") : Eval("Name").ToString().Substring(0, 12)+"..." % >

asked Jan 06 '15 at 15:53

MarsOne

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Include error information – user469104 Jan 06 '15 at 15:55
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You shouldn't be doing this in the markup. This logic should be in the code behind when you're assigning the value to `Name`. – Servy Jan 06 '15 at 15:56
you need to wrap that around single quotes like this `
'<%#Eval("Name")%>'
` – MethodMan Jan 06 '15 at 15:59
@DJKRAZE No he doesn't. It would just add literal single quotes in the output. – Servy Jan 06 '15 at 16:00
That's really odd.. because I use a similar thing and it works for me on my end.. however I am doing this inside of an ItemTemplate.. Disregard – MethodMan Jan 06 '15 at 16:02
How does it fail? It should work, there are other options here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14448511/how-to-limit-text-string-in-eval – weston Jan 06 '15 at 16:19
I used Servy's suggestion of handling this in code rather than in markup – MarsOne Jan 06 '15 at 16:20

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