I have .txt file and want it to display in ASP.NET server textbox control.

When I view the text file in Notepad it looks good. But when I put that into the textbox the line breaks are not preserved. It looks very odd.

Is there a way to display the .txt file without loosing the line breaks ?

How are you reading the file? Is you're using readline, it will get rid of the line breaks...

hi,

here is my code, it works fine,refer to it

 protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string fileName = Server.MapPath("mynote.txt");

        StreamReader objStreamReader;
        objStreamReader = File.OpenText(fileName );

        string contents = objStreamReader.ReadToEnd();

        TextBox1.Text = contents;

        objStreamReader.Close();
    }

hope it helps

The above will work fine, if you are displaying in HTML you may want to add string sline = stream.ReadToEnd().Replace("\r","<BR>");

So will be display in HTML in linebreaks

jessjing:

hi,

here is my code, it works fine,refer to it

 protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string fileName = Server.MapPath("mynote.txt");

        StreamReader objStreamReader;
        objStreamReader = File.OpenText(fileName );

        string contents = objStreamReader.ReadToEnd();

        TextBox1.Text = contents;

        objStreamReader.Close();
    }

hope it helps

Thanks for the response. 

I used the same method to read the text file but it won;t preserve the line breaks.

shados:

How are you reading the file? Is you're using readline, it will get rid of the line breaks...

I am using the same approch as jessjing. 

shados:

How are you reading the file? Is you're using readline, it will get rid of the line breaks...

I am using the same approach as jessjing. 

hi,

That's weird, it works so well on my computer, and I think it should work well