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Alanna
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Unterminated String Constant error in webgrid
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Hey,

I have a user control I made that contains a webgrid.  This control is located in 2 places:  1 is within the content pane in a master page (we will call this Grid 1), and the other is just simply on a page by itself (Grid 2).  The grid contains a user control that has a tooltip that appears when a user puts their mouse over a certain part of the control.

A new requirement came in stating that this tooltip had to have 2 lines of text in it, so I put a line break in the tooltip, in a format similar to the following:

altText = "some text" & vbCr & "some more text"

After making this change, Grid 1 now no longer renders and I get a JavaScript error on the page:  "Error: Unterminated string constant".  All other controls in the content pane display fine.  However, Grid 2 does render ok and does not display the same error message.  If these grids are both identical (remember it's the same control being used on 2 different pages), what could be causing this JavaScript error to be generated?

Please help!!!

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    Well, I managed to resolve my own problem.  The issue was that, in the markup for the grid, I had set Browser="Xml".  I removed, this, and now the grid renders with multi-line tooltips everywhere like it should.

    I still don't understand why though, on one page one grid would work, while the exact same grid wouldn't work on another page.  I have a feeling that I had set the browser to XML for a reason but I've done a bit of testing and removing it doesn't seem to have caused an issue (so maybe I had already removed whatever functionality I had initially required the browser = xml for)

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    Ok, a bit of an update... I took the grid out of the master page and onto another one, that's not the issue.  I have solved the issue of the missing grid, however, the tooltips still aren't right.  I changed the creation of the tooltip to be:

    altText = "some text" & Environment.NewLine & "some more text"

    The JavaScript error is now gone, however, the tooltip on Grid 1 is not on 2 lines, but the tooltip on Grid 2 is.

    What could be causing this inconsistency?