Keeping text control characters (line breaks / carriage returns) in DetailsView field

Bazza Formez

I have a bound field in a DetailsView control that displays free form
description type data from my SQL database table (typical data is a
couple of paragraphs of written product description being held in a
single database field of type ntext).

This description data typically has various simple control characters
in it - ie. new line, carriage returns etc) to make the paragraph more
readable.

My problem is that these control characters are lost / don't work....
When I run the application all text in the field displays as a simple
lump of text.. without any new lines etc.

Below is the simple definition I am using inside the DetailsView..

<asp:BoundField DataField="Description" HeaderText="Description"
SortExpression="Description" />

Can anyone suggest a solution ?

Thanks,
Bazza

Aug 1 '07 #1

Alexey Smirnov

On Aug 1, 10:57 pm, Bazza Formez <bruce_for...@clear.net.nzwrote: instead of BoundField use a TemplateField

<asp:TemplateField>
<ItemTemplate>
<%# Replace(Container.DataItem("Description"), vbCrLf, "<br>") %>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>

and in C# use

Replace("\n", "<br>");

Aug 1 '07 #2

Bazza Formez

On Aug 2, 9:24 am, Alexey Smirnov <alexey.smir...@gmail.comwrote: Thank you very much Alexey!

Aug 6 '07 #3