Hello
i am newbie

I have created a form for users to edit text for website.
I am using textbox with multiline to display existing record then edit it and update it.

I only want to allow user to use html tags inside the textbox:
<br>
<b>
<i>
<a href="mailto:someemailaddress.com">Email me</a>


I would imagine i would need to take content of textbox and parse it.
I don't know how to do this.

Can you show me some code for this??

Hey,

You want to email the contents of the textboxes to mail to yourself?

Brian

bmains,
Email address can be any email address. The content of textbox will be updated in dataset which will be evently updated into SQL Server.

I want certain html tags to be allowed to be used in textbox and all other tags to not be allowed. This is a textbox validation that allows 4 types of html tag (<br>,<b>,>/b>,</i>,<i>,<a href="mailto:someemailaddress.com">Email me</a>).

I would imagine I need take the contents of textbox and parse it to check for any html tags. The four above are allowed and all others will throw an exception.

How do you do this in ASP.Net using VB.Net?

Hey,

You need to use Server.HtmlEncode to encode the text; otherwise, you may have some complications arise. Use Regular Expressions, which would be the best way (System.Text.RegularExpressions).

Brian