Hi
I’m fairly new to ASP.NET, I’m using 2.0.
I am trying to develop a page where the user can enter text into a multi line textbox and then when they click enter the text is stored in a Table in an SQLServer DB.
When the page is reloaded the text that was stored is outputted to a Label.
This works ok except for one small problem when I enter text in the text box which is more than one line IE
"Hello
my
name
is
Graham"
It is displayed in the Label as "Hello my name is Graham"
Does anyone know how to keep the text in the form that it was entered in the textbox when it is displayed in the Label?
Other wise I will not be able to have paragraphs etc, just one long string.
Thanks
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by: mattisflonesPosted on 2006-11-08 at 04:29:44ID: 17897407
The input in a textbox is string, thus displayed as a string when you retrieve the data back.
The linebreaks you see in the textbox are not really there.. call it a malfunck if you want.
One option for handling this is a messy Jscript code, that will not work on lots of browsers, to search your textbox for newlines on submit, but thats a bad solution..
What you need is a wysiwyg editor, that alter your input with <br> tags and so forth, and even allows for real "MSWord" like texthandling..
I can suggest the same editor that i use in all my projects; FredCKs FCKeditor.
http://www.fckeditor.net/
(Be sure to get the ASP.NET addpack aswell as the editor itself! Works like a charm in VS and VSExpress)
Its to say it in one word.. Devine! :-)