How do convert text to HTML?

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I've an multi-line edit box on an html page that I use to
collect detailed description information. I'd also like
to display that information on an html page... How do I
convert it to hmtl so that line feeds and other special
characters are displayed properly.
 
Checkout the System.Web.HttpServerUtility.HTMLEncode function ...

eg, Label1.Text = HTMLEncode( Textbox1.Text )

Alex Papadimoulis
 
BADEV said:
I've an multi-line edit box on an html page that I use to
collect detailed description information. I'd also like
to display that information on an html page... How do I
convert it to hmtl so that line feeds and other special
characters are displayed properly.
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HttpUtility.HtmlEncode() will make it so special characters are
displayed properly.

Then try wrapping the text in <pre> </pre> tags. That will preserve line
breaks. If you don't like the text appearance used for the <pre>
element, you can use style sheets to change it, or perform a search and
replace to change line breaks (\n, \r\n, or whatever you decide is a
line break) to the "<br/>" tag.
 
Thanks, that did the trick. I just have to fix the
styles now :-) but that's an simpler problem.
 
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