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Is it possible to prevent a multi line HeaderText in a DataGridView?

When the length of the HeaderText property reaches a certain character limit and there is a space in the text, WinForms automatically inserts a link break in the header:

What I want:

+-----------------------+---
| Measurement Value (%) | ...
+-----------------------+---

What I get:

+-----------------------+---
| Measurement Value     | ...
|(%)                    |
+-----------------------+---

There is more than enough space to display all header cells without the lines breaks, but for whatever reason it is still inserted even when I set the AutoSizeMode to HeaderCell.

How can I prevent these line breaks, while still keeping the spaces in the HeaderText?

Solution

  • The ColumnHeadersDefaultCellStyle property of the DataGridView has a boolean property called WrapMode. This is true by default. Make it false to set the required behaviour.