Can anyone please tell me how I can keep basic html formatting when using a text area and submitting to a database?

I'd like to store linebreaks and paragraphs when submitting the form.

Thankyou

matthisco:

Can anyone please tell me how I can keep basic html formatting when using a text area and submitting to a database?

I'd like to store linebreaks and paragraphs when submitting the form.

AFAIK, MultiLine TextBox doesn't supports HTML formatting.. You would need to use Rich Text editor such as fckEditor or FreeTextBox to display formatted text..

See this link to see the list of Editors:

Lists of WYSIWYG Editor

matthisco:

I'd like to store linebreaks and paragraphs when submitting the form.

Thankyou

have you check the while you store the textarea data to database , ie: which format your data will be.. put breakpoint and check it

This is code which provide break for new line

C#

Label1.Text= Label1.Text("\r\n" , "<br\>");

in vb.net

Label1.Text= Label1.Text(vbCr & vbLf , "<br\>");

and vice versa

Hi matthisco,

If you input some text into textbox, and save the message in the database.

You should handler the message before saving the message into database.

    temp=TextBox1.Text;
    temp = Server.HtmlEncode(temp);
　temp = temp.Replace(" ","&nbsp;");
　temp = temp.Replace("\r\n","<br>");

Then you can save it into database, and display it, it will ok.