allowing basic text formatting in a asp.net control

AdamPembs · February 3rd, 2011, 07:09 PM

Mainly, how do I allow carriage returns from a textbox control entered in the administration section of my site, which is stored in sql server as nvarchar(max)
I might implement a full wysiwyg at some point but for now, what is the simplest and most secure way to allow line breaks and/or html tags in the text box?

Imar · February 4th, 2011, 02:53 AM

Hi there

If you have a TextBox with its TextMode set to MultiLine, ASP.NET renders a TextArea which by design allows a user to enter line breaks.

Then when you display the content, you can replace the line breaks with a <br /> element.

Hope this helps,

Imar

AdamPembs · February 6th, 2011, 09:20 AM

Thanks this code worked

Code:

<asp:Literal ID="L2" runat="server" Text='<%# Replace(Eval("groupdescription"),vbCrLf ,"<br />") %>'></asp:Literal>