ASP.NET: Trim text with ellipsis and show tooltip in GridView

In a gridview if data in a cell consists of more number of characters making it very wide in appearance, a good design option to rectify it would be to cut short the displayed text according to the column width and show ellipsis indicating that there is still more to be shown. We can then have a tooltip on the cells of that column displaying the complete data string.


Option 1:

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