The Beautiful Razor WebGrid

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The webgrid is truly a work of art.  The fastest way to show results of a query in a friendly, sortable, easily formattable fashion.

Conditionally formatting our data can sometimes offer struggles so here are a couple of tips.

Have a pesky nullable date column?

You can add something like this inside your grid - here I am working with both a status and a nullable date.  So if the status equals "NA"  (I set that in my query if the step wasn't relevant), I am returning a black box into the cell otherwise i am returning the sew date (item.Sew) which can be nullable - here I am returning an empty cell if null or a nicely formatted date if not.


IF STATEMENT IN GRID

 ,grid.Column(header:"Sew", format: (item) =>
                {
                    if (item.SewStatus == "NA")
                    {
return Html.Raw(string.Format("<text><img height=40 width=100% src=\"{0}\" alt=\"Image\"/></text>", Url.Content("~/Content/images/black.png")));

                    }
                    else
                    {
                        return item.Sew ==null ?null: item.Sew.ToString("MM/dd/yy");
                    }
                }
            )

FOREACH STATEMENT IN GRID


            grid.Column(header: "NTID", canSort: true, columnName: "NTID"),
                  grid.Column("UserRoles", "UserRoles", format: (item) =>
                  {
                      string temp2 = string.Empty;
                      foreach (var rol in item.UserRoles)
                      {
                          temp2 += rol.SystemRole.RoleName + "<br />";
                      }
                      return new HtmlString(temp2);
                  }),
                    grid.Column(columnName: "firstName", header: "First Name"),

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