How to set a constant width for a gridview column.

In one of my pages I wanted to show Error Log stored in the database to a gridview.

In that there is Error Descritpion column which has got very large text. I only wanted to display the beginning of the Error Description. On selecting the particular error description a pop up page comes & display the description in detail. So how can we set the Error Description column a constant width & text to be displayed only at the beginning.

1. Create a template column place a link button inside a table

2. Set the width of the LinkButton

3. Set Style property overflow:hidden

4. Set the ItemStyle for this template & define width & set Wrap=false

that is like this

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<asp:TemplateField>   <HeaderTemplate>Product Description</HeaderTemplate>       <ItemTemplate>       <table>   <tr>   <td>   <asp:LinkButton id="lnkProductDescription" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("ProductDescription") %>' Width="150px" style="overflow:hidden;"></asp:LinkButton>   </td>   </tr>   </table>       </ItemTemplate>   <%--For making the Wrap of the column to be disabled --%>   <ItemStyle Width="150px" Wrap="false" />       </asp:TemplateField>