Lining up products with Long Names

[William_firefold]

We have been having a ton of trouble getting products to line up on the front page and on category pages when we have products with long file names. Trying to get Even rows has been almost impossible and has resulted in a lot of wasted space to make up for the space that long names take up.

I finally got around to coming up with a solution and I thought others might be interested.
In our case, we have only put this fix in Conlib:ItemBought for now but we may use it in other place later.

Find the ASP hyperlink in the ItemBought.ascx file around line 22 and change to this:

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<asp:HyperLink ID="NameLink" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Name").ToString().Length >= 50 ? Eval("Name").ToString().Substring(0, 50)+"..." : Eval("Name").ToString()  %>' NavigateUrl='<%#Eval("NavigateUrl")%>'></asp:HyperLink><br /><br />

This will chop file names over 50 Characters long and add an elipsis...
Hope this helps.