Dycacian wrote:

Well it ate my code up, but it is just the original HTML without the PRE tags.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?   Let me know if we don't have you where you need to be and we'll get you there :)

I was talking about this forum..  I posted some code,  and it messed it all up  hehe. 

I haven't tried your second idea yet. . I am just about to check it out . :D

thanks,

Dy

one problem I see is that You are writing in C# and I am in VB,  but I still might be able to use the logic, and build somthing that does the same thing, though it will take some time.  I just have to figure it out. 

-Dy

The following site has an online converter - tried to run it but I wouldn't be able to tell you if it did a good job or not (you would ;).

I ran one method at a time (online).  Hope this helps!

http://csharpconverter.claritycon.com/Default.aspx

This fix worked for me.  Thanks mcsenow 

juniordude

BillKrat:

Hi Dy,

Didn't get a notification on this one - sorry about the delay (I was browsing around and stumbled in).

In the migration to .NET 2.0 I scraped a lot of my old stuff (to start over) to include the code I used to do the wordwrap so I had to figure it out again EXCEPT! I found an easy HTML method on the Microsoft site :)   Its the magical line in red!

\Issues\UserControls\comments.ascx

<asp:TemplateColumn>
   <ItemTemplate>
   <table border="1">
      <tr>
            <td bgcolor="#000099" >
                  <font color=yellow><b>
                  <asp:Label id="lblCreatorDisplayName" Runat="Server" Font-Italic="True" /></font>
                  <font color=white><b>&nbsp;<em>commented on </em>
                     <asp:Label id="lblDateCreated" Runat="Server" Font-Italic="True" /><em>&nbsp;<br /></em>
                   </b></font>
             </td>
     </tr>
      <tr>
            <td>
                    <div style="width:780;word-wrap:break-word;left:0" id="ltlComment" Runat="Server" />
            </td>
     </tr>
</table>
</ItemTemplate>

 Just addtion, it will be perfect with attribute "word-break:break-all" being added. 

So the statement should like this:

I'm sending a confirmation email that includes text entered in a text box, but am losing all hard returns when the email is sent.  How do I keep the hard returns, or add a <BR>?

Hi Susan,

I run my email body through a formatter, e.g.,   string myEmailBody = Formatter.FormattedContent(e.BodyText);

The code for it follows; you'll see that I added some additional formatting commands.

/// <summary>
/// Summary description for Formatter
/// </summary>
public class Formatter{

    public static string FormattedContent(string textToFormat, bool isWordWrap) {
        return FormattedContent(textToFormat);
    }

    public static string FormattedContent(string textToFormat) {

        string comment = textToFormat;

        comment = HttpContext.Current.Server.HtmlEncode(comment);
        comment = comment.Replace("  ", "&nbsp;&nbsp;");
        comment = comment.Replace("\t", "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;");
        comment = comment.Replace("----", "<HR>");
        comment = comment.Replace("\r", "<BR>");
        comment = comment.Replace("&gt;&gt;", ">");
        comment = comment.Replace("&lt;&lt;", "<");
        comment = comment.Replace("[!", "<font color=red><b>");
        comment = comment.Replace("[[", "<font color=blue><b>");
        comment = comment.Replace("]]", "</font></b>");
        return comment;
    }

    public static string CommandLegend() {
        string retVal =
            "Formatting commands follow:<br />" +
            "<table border=1>" +
            "    <tr><td bgcolor=Gainsboro><b>Syntax</b></td>" +
            "        <td bgcolor=Gainsboro><b>Would appear as</b></td></tr>" +
            "    <tr>" +
            "        <td>" +
            "            [!This is a test]]" +
            "        </td>" +
            "        <td>" +
            "            <strong><span style=\"color: red\">This is a test</span></strong></td>" +
            "    </tr>" +
            "    <tr>" +
            "        <td>" +
            "            &nbsp;[[This is a test]]" +
            "        </td>" +
            "        <td>" +
            "            <strong><span style=\"color: #3300ff\">This is a test</span></strong></td>" +
            "    </tr>" +
            "    <tr>" +
            "        <td>" +
            "            ----;</td>" +
            "        <td>" +
            "            Horizontal line</td>" +
            "    </tr>" +
            "    <tr>" +
            "        <td>" +
            "            &lt;&lt;font color=red&gt;&gt;Hi!&lt;&lt;/font&gt;&gt;</td>" +
            "        <td>" +
            "            <span style=\"color: red\">Hi!</span></td>" +
            "    </tr>" +
            "</table>" ;
        return retVal;
    }

    public Formatter()
    {

    }
}

I tried this and it worked for me. What I basically did was commented out the <pre> tags in the htlm and added three <br/> right before the ending </pre> tags. Works fine and looks good to me.