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Textbox formatting in ASP.Net C# Javascript

Hello EE,
On a website I am working on I built a comment system that works great, except when the user submits their comment it loses all formatting, example, you can press Enter or Return in the textarea and it starts a new line, but when the insert into the database happens there is no new line so the comments are being displayed goofy, where the user presses enter there is no space or anything.

Can I do anything to resolve this without having to monitor every key stroke in the textarea?

Thanks in Advance!

Pratima

Replace the new line with <br> as you want ahow the data in html

variable.Replace(System.Environment.NewLine, "<br>")

Or

variable.Replace("\n", "<br>")

Keiko08

ASKER

Woops I completely misworded that, I meant a textarea, doesn't seem to be working for the textarea, I am sending the contents of the textarea using a querystring (ajax)

neeraj523

Hello

Try this if i understand ur problem well

textarea.text = Server.HtmlDecode(Request.QueryString("stringname"))

neeraj523

naspinski

What pratima suggested will work for a textarea as well

Ajay Sharma

use this.

Supposing u have one label where u want to show data named lblText.
tempVar is variable holding database column value.

VB code
lblText.Text = tempVar.Replace(vbCrLf, "<br />")

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