Text Property (Cell)

Visual Basic
C#

'Declaration
 
Public Property Text As String

'Usage
 
Dim instance As Cell
Dim value As String
 
instance.Text = value
 
value = instance.Text

public string Text {get; set;}

Property Value

String containing the formatted contents of this cell

This property gets or sets the formatted data in a cell using the IFormatter object for that cell to do the parsing. If setting the text, the data handled with this property is placed in the data model after it is parsed; if getting the text, the data is retrieved from the data model and parsed using the formatter.

Besides using this property, you can get or set the text in a cell using several methods available at the sheet level (with the SheetView object). For more information, see Handling Data Using Sheet Methods.

Remember that the data may be displayed differently in a cell depending on the cell type. For more information, see Understanding Cell Type Effects on Displaying Data. Compare the values returned from the Text property with the values returned from the Value property. For example, for date-time cells, the Text property returns the formatted date and time value; the Value property returns a DateTime object for the date and time.

This example creates a Cell object and supplies a note for the cell. When the user passes the mouse over the cell, a note appears at the mouse pointer.

C#

FarPoint.Web.Spread.Cell mycell;
FarPoint.Web.Spread.Inset margin = new FarPoint.Web.Spread.Inset(20,40,50,20);
mycell = FpSpread1.Cells[0,0];
mycell.Text="Note Test";
mycell.Locked=true;
mycell.Margin=margin;
mycell.Note="This is the Note";
FpSpread1.ActiveSheetView.Rows[0].Height=80;

Visual Basic

Dim mycell As FarPoint.Web.Spread.Cell
Dim margin As New FarPoint.Web.Spread.Inset(20,40,50,20)
mycell=FpSpread1.Cells(0,0)
mycell.Text="Note Test"
mycell.Locked=True
mycell.Margin=margin
mycell.Note="This is the Note"
FpSpread1.ActiveSheetView.Rows(0).Height=80

Reference

Cell Class
Cell Members
IFormatter Interface
Value Property
FormatString Property

User-Task Documentation

Handling Data Using Sheet Methods
Understanding Cell Type Effects on Displaying Data