Display data in datalist

Jun 3 2009 8:00 AM

I am pazhanivel working as dotnet trainee.Already I have stored some data in database.Now i want to display records in datalist in webpage.In that one of my data item have more than 20 characters.Now i want to display only 5 character like(i am ...)that and when i click this it goes to detailview.How do i do.....