I've this form which accepts variety of data including textfields ..i use POST.. now when i send it to my processing page i dont get the line breaks which ive entered in the textfields

in the end this data from textfield goes to access database into a field of type text - memo

how do i get back the line breaks using ASP so that when i retrieve my msg later from the db it shud look exactly like how it wuz typed in .. i dont want to mess up with javascripts ..

Here's what I did to solve this problem.

Before the textfield data goes to the database use a replace statement on it:

  Replace(textfield, vbCrLf, "<BR>")

Of course this assumes that you want to display the textfield data in an html page.

Take a look at the WRAP attribute of the <textarea> (I think that wrap is only supported by IE). You'll see that the default is not to submit line breaks. Try changing the value to 'hard' or 'off' and see if that sorts it out. (When you retrieve it later, display the text inside <PRE> tags. That will preserve your line breaks.)

hth
Phil

thanx .. the 1st method did work ..

i do display the text again in text-area later on . so i use this ..

replace(objRS("Data") & "",chr(10),"<br>")

after retrieving data from the db ..