plain text with html as output

[memermore]

Could someone provide a code in asp that converts string input to html source code? Thanks in advance ^_^

[Ranjan kumar Barik]

Could someone provide a code in asp that converts string input to html source code? Thanks in advance ^_^

Hi,memermore
Please make clear what actually you want.
Thanks.

[memermore]

oops...sorry. What I mean is a code that will attach HTML tags on a plain text specifically from a <textarea>. I do hope I stated it right this time. ^^

[Ranjan kumar Barik]

oops...sorry. What I mean is a code that will attach HTML tags on a plain text specifically from a <textarea>. I do hope I stated it right this time. ^^

Hi, memermore
Do you mean displaying text in html format like:
<textarea> to be displayed on the page, then you can use html entities for the angle brackets insine the 'response.write( )' method.
Html entities are used to diplay special characters in an html page.
For more details please search in the web.

If It is not what you want then just inform where I was wrong.

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Thanks & Regards

[jhardman]

oops...sorry. What I mean is a code that will attach HTML tags on a plain text specifically from a <textarea>. I do hope I stated it right this time. ^^

If I understand right, you are saying that the user will input plain text into a text area, and you want to know the best way to display it with HTML formatting. Is this right? Usually there isn't a lot of formatting required, you might want to change special characters to character codes, and add paragraph tags or line breaks to maintain white space. Does this sound like what you want? Basically you would put the input through a series of replace statements that replace the given input with what output you want, like this:

dim txt
txt = request.form("myTextBox1")
txt = replace(txt, "&", "&")
txt = replace(txt, chr(34), """)
txt = replace(txt, vbNewLine, "<br>"&vbNewLine)
response.write txt

You might want to look into "server.htmlencode" which is a function that does some of this (if I remember right it replaces the special characters), and depending on your needs, you might be able to use <pre> text input goes here </pre> tags.

Let me know if this helps.

Jared

[memermore]

I am now filling my code with those replace() statements. Thanks guys!