Hello Harlan,

First of all, this is expected behavior. We are internally force the cell to activate when column’s Style is FormattedText, there is a link in the cell's formatted text and user clicks over this link. We do this because if the cell is not active LinkClicked event of the FormattedLinkEditor will not fire. As long as the cell is activated it paints over the row and it seems like the row is not selected anymore.

On second place you can work around this in two ways, depending on your application logic:

• If you need to handle LinkClicked event of the FormattedLinkEditor you can set active cell appearance to be the same as the selected row appearance like this:
  
  

  e.Layout.Override.ActiveCellAppearance = e.Layout.Override.SelectedRowAppearance;

  
  
  Note that you may also need to fix the selection rectangle by implementing custom DrawFilter for your gird;
• If you do not need to handle LinkClicked event of the FormattedLinkEditor you can handle BeforeCellActivate event of the grid and cancel it like this:
  
  

  private void UltraGrid1_BeforeCellActivate(object sender, Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.CancelableCellEventArgs e)
  {
      if(e.Cell.EditorResolved is FormattedLinkEditor)
          e.Cancel = true;
  }

Attached is a small sample project showing how you can work around this behavior of the grid.

Please check my sample and let me know if any additional questions arise.

Hi Harlan,

I am glad to hear you have resolved your issue. If what you need is only to underline the link your approach is probably the best one in this case.

Please let me know if you need any further assistance.

Hi,

Thank you for your quick response.

Since I do not need to handle the LinkeClicked event I tried your second solution.

For whatever reason, it did not work from me. Even though I canceled the Cell Activate event, the row was still de-activated.

Since I did not actually need to use a link, I changed the format to underline the link: "<u><font color=\"black\">"Test text"</font></u>"

This seems to work for me.

Thanks