Telerik GridNumericColumn direction problem

Question

I'm using a telerik RadGrid with direction RTL.

I have a telerik GridNumericColumn and the problem is that it shows numbers this way:

500-

instead of

-500

can someone give an advice ?

Answer 1

This is the default behavior of the browser. Bidirectional algorithm will swap the number and the sign. Check this out

-5 You can change this in the markup by using bdo element with ltr direction: -5

Since Telerik set the text for the column directly in the cell, it will be easier for you to set ItemStyle.CssClass and HorizontalAlign="Right". The css class will look something like this: .myClass { direction:ltr; }

I have used the technique above(with the css class) in few projects and it is working fine for me.

Interesting readings on that subject: "http://freenet-homepage.de/prilop/bidirectional-text.html" "http://www.alanflavell.org.uk/charset/text-direction.html" "http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/dirlang.html"