Is there a way to keep the data clean without having a bunch of HTML tags 
mixed in for formatting - but still have paragraph breaks, bold text etc. 
when the data is pulled onto an ASP page?

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From: "Rick Lull" <ricklull@h...>
Subject: [access_asp] Formatting data


: Is there a way to keep the data clean without having a bunch of HTML tags
: mixed in for formatting - but still have paragraph breaks, bold text etc.
: when the data is pulled onto an ASP page?

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a) Browsers only use HTML to render text. There is no way you can set
display properties using anything else.

b) You're going to have to have *some* kind of markup in your content to
delineate what's a paragraph, or what's in bold etc. For example, a carriage
return-line feed is usually created using ASCII characters 10 and 13. YOu
could store that in the database and do a Replace() when you pull the data
out, so that you can render this properly in the browser.

Cheers
Ken

*Is there a way to keep the data clean without having a bunch of HTML tags
*mixed in for formatting - but still have paragraph breaks, bold text etc.
*when the data is pulled onto an ASP page?

the <pre></pre> tags will work.  pre stands for preformatted text.  But 
that means that it is preformatted, you can't use any formatting like font 
style, tables, etc...