[RESOLVED] data format string for email and website in gridview ?

 I have 2 columns that has the datatype hyperlink, one is called email and the other one website.

when it shows up in the gridview, this is how it shows : contact@printing.com#mailto:contact@printing.com#

and the website shows up like this : www.rentacar.com#http://www.rentacar.com#

how do i make it show as a link in the gridview like mailto link and website link so that when i click on the respective links the programs could open, email:outlook and website:firefox

 Regards n thanks in advance.

 

Use a TemplateField instead of a BoundField :

<asp:TemplateField
HeaderText="Email"
ItemStyle-CssClass="Boolean">

<itemtemplate>

<a
href='mailto:<%# Eval("Email") %>'><%# Eval("Email") %>asp:Image>a>

itemtemplate>

asp:TemplateField>

 no mate, does not work. It gives me an error on 
asp:Image> "cannot switch view" and then when it runs it gives me a boundfield error. i think i
need to define a boundfield, cause u only defined a headertext="Email".

any way of doing this normally with what i have ? 

        AutoGenerateColumns="False" BorderColor="Black"
        BorderWidth="1px" CellPadding="3" CellSpacing="1" DataKeyNames="ContactID" DataSourceID="AccessDataSource1"
        Font-Names="Verdana" Font-Size="8pt" GridLines="None">
        
        
            
                            SortExpression="ContactTelephoneS" />
                            SortExpression="ContactTelephoneD" />
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            

        
        
        
        
        
    

 

noworries, i found it and hope everyone having problems with showing mail links in gridview can use this :)

Hope this helps all :)

Thanks and regards .. 

Sorrry for necro posting but I think this way is a bit cleaner: