Your question is profound... or maybe I should say profoundly unclear.

You haven't told us what control binds to the database, for instance.
Without that information, all answers would be guesses. You'll have to
give us much more detail... show us some markup, for instance.

On Jan 27, 11:29 pm, Jon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, folks. This is a weird one. I'm a relative newbie to C#
> programming, so please be easy on me :o)
>
> I have a bound datatable which displays column A. No problem. Works
> great.
> In my database table, though, I have columns A and B.
>
> Current displayed result of accessing the page:
>
> Column A text, a short description
> Column A text, a short description
> ...etc.
>
> Now comes the question. I want to make the text in column A a
> hyperlink that, when clicked, will display the database column B stuff
> in the same field, as such...
>
> Column A text, a short description (hyperlink)
>     Column B text, a long description (first N characters)
> (hyperlink)
>         >>>>>>>>>
>          Column B text in a pop-up, containing all characters.
>
> Easy, right?
>
> Where do I start? And where do I go once I've started?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Jon

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