Gridview: Make text fit into column?

[Mark B]

ASP 3.5 VB.NET

I have a GridView fixed at 950px wide. It has 7 columns.

The first column's items are all hyperlinks. Some however are very long,
e.g.

"Earth.UnitedStates.NewYork.NewYork.CentralCity.5thAvenue.745.Level2.Accounting.FixedAssetMaintenance"

What I want is for the text to wrap for this column. It hasn't been and has
been pushing the overall width of the Gridview to 1200 or more. It does wrap
when there are spaces in the hyperlink label, e.g. "New York" rather than
"NewYork".

How can I get the text to wrap if it's long? E.g., to be:

"Earth.UnitedStates.NewYork.NewYork.Cen
tralCity.5thAvenue.745.Level2.Accounting.F
ixedAssetMaintenance"


Ideally it would cut only at a period:

"Earth.UnitedStates.NewYork.NewYork
..CentralCity.5thAvenue.745.Level2.Accounting.
FixedAssetMaintenance"