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Multiline cells

The sample below demonstrates multiline cells in grid.
enableMultiline method makes all grid multiline. But you have possibility to set some rows/columns with fixed height (not as multiline) using custom code like in this sample. Cells in the third column are not multiline.

Source
<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../../codebase/dhtmlxgrid.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../codebase/skins/dhtmlxgrid_dhx_skyblue.css">
<script  src="../../codebase/dhtmlxcommon.js"></script>
<script  src="../../codebase/dhtmlxgrid.js"></script>
<script  src="../../codebase/dhtmlxgridcell.js"></script>    
<style>
.not_m_line{
    white-space:nowrap; overflow:hidden;
}
</style>
 
 
<div id="gridbox" style="width:600px; height:250px; background-color:white;"></div>
<script>
mygrid = new dhtmlXGridObject('gridbox');
mygrid.setImagePath("../../codebase/imgs/");
mygrid.setHeader("Sales,Book Title,Author,Price,In Store,Shipping,Bestseller,Date of Publication");
mygrid.setInitWidths("50,80,100,80,80,80,80,200");
mygrid.setColAlign("right,left,left,right,center,left,center,center");
mygrid.setColTypes("dyn,edtxt,ed,price,ch,co,ra,ro");
mygrid.enableMultiline(true);
mygrid.init();
mygrid.setSkin("dhx_skyblue");
mygrid.loadXML("../common/grid_ml_16_rows_columns_manipulations.xml", function() {
    mygrid.forEachRow(function(id) {
        mygrid.cells(id, 2).cell.className = 'not_m_line';
    });
});
</script>