multiple lines in a label

[tshad]

I have a textbox that I am storing as text (or as a varChar). The field has
multiple lines in it (not wrapped).

When I read it back into a multiline textbox, it works fine. But when I
read it back into a label, it shows all lines together.

Is there a way to get the Label to display the lines separately?

I could use textbox and get rid of the border and set enable to false, but
then it greys the text, which I don't want.

Thanks,

Tom.

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Tom,
Remember, line-breaks from a text box or text area are not the same
thing as an HTML line break. Basically you'll need to replace the linefeed
characters in the text box with the HTML <br>. This is a fairly
straightforward operation using the Replace() method of the string
functionality in .Net, such as
varChar.ToStrin g().Replace(Env ironment.NewLin e,"<br>")

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP- FrontPage

"tshad" <ts**********@f tsolutions.com> wrote in message
news:OQ******** ********@tk2msf tngp13.phx.gbl. ..

I have a textbox that I am storing as text (or as a varChar). The field
has multiple lines in it (not wrapped).

When I read it back into a multiline textbox, it works fine. But when I
read it back into a label, it shows all lines together.

Is there a way to get the Label to display the lines separately?

I could use textbox and get rid of the border and set enable to false, but
then it greys the text, which I don't want.

Thanks,

Tom.

[tshad]

"Mark Fitzpatrick" <ma******@fitzm e.com> wrote in message
news:u2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP11.phx.gbl. ..

Tom,
Remember, line-breaks from a text box or text area are not the same
thing as an HTML line break. Basically you'll need to replace the linefeed
characters in the text box with the HTML <br>. This is a fairly
straightforward operation using the Replace() method of the string
functionality in .Net, such as
varChar.ToStrin g().Replace(Env ironment.NewLin e,"<br>")
Does this replace all Newlines?

Also, do I need to move the data to string or can I do it directly from
either my label control or data coming from my dataset, such as:

if not (ClientReader(" achievements") is DBNull.Value) then
achievements.te xt = ClientReader("a chievements")
achievements.To String().replac e(environment.n ewline,"<br>") ->
doesn't seem to work here
end if

or can I do it directly in the ClientReader line above?

Thanks,

Tom.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP- FrontPage

"tshad" <ts**********@f tsolutions.com> wrote in message
news:OQ******** ********@tk2msf tngp13.phx.gbl. ..

I have a textbox that I am storing as text (or as a varChar). The field
has multiple lines in it (not wrapped).

When I read it back into a multiline textbox, it works fine. But when I
read it back into a label, it shows all lines together.

Is there a way to get the Label to display the lines separately?

I could use textbox and get rid of the border and set enable to false,
but then it greys the text, which I don't want.

Thanks,

Tom.

[MWells]

if not (ClientReader(" achievements") is DBNull.Value) then
achievements.te xt =
ClientReader("a chievements").T oString().repla ce(environment. newline,"<br>")
end if

-or-

if not (ClientReader(" achievements") is DBNull.Value) then
achievements.te xt = ClientReader("a chievements")
achievements.te xt =
achievements.te xt.ToString().r eplace(environm ent.newline,"<b r>")
end if

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"Mark Fitzpatrick" <ma******@fitzm e.com> wrote in message
news:u2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP11.phx.gbl. ..

Tom,
Remember, line-breaks from a text box or text area are not the same thing as an HTML line break. Basically you'll need to replace the linefeed characters in the text box with the HTML <br>. This is a fairly
straightforward operation using the Replace() method of the string
functionality in .Net, such as
varChar.ToStrin g().Replace(Env ironment.NewLin e,"<br>")

Does this replace all Newlines?

Also, do I need to move the data to string or can I do it directly from
either my label control or data coming from my dataset, such as:

if not (ClientReader(" achievements") is DBNull.Value) then
achievements.te xt = ClientReader("a chievements")
achievements.To String().replac e(environment.n ewline,"<br>") ->
doesn't seem to work here
end if

or can I do it directly in the ClientReader line above?

Thanks,

Tom.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP- FrontPage

"tshad" <ts**********@f tsolutions.com> wrote in message
news:OQ******** ********@tk2msf tngp13.phx.gbl. ..

I have a textbox that I am storing as text (or as a varChar). The field
has multiple lines in it (not wrapped).

When I read it back into a multiline textbox, it works fine. But when I read it back into a label, it shows all lines together.

Is there a way to get the Label to display the lines separately?

I could use textbox and get rid of the border and set enable to false,
but then it greys the text, which I don't want.

Thanks,

Tom.

[tshad]

"MWells" <outbound__at_s ygnal.com> wrote in message
news:eb******** **********@tk2m sftngp13.phx.gb l...

if not (ClientReader(" achievements") is DBNull.Value) then
achievements.te xt =
ClientReader("a chievements").T oString().repla ce(environment. newline,"<br>")
end if

-or-

if not (ClientReader(" achievements") is DBNull.Value) then
achievements.te xt = ClientReader("a chievements")
achievements.te xt =
achievements.te xt.ToString().r eplace(environm ent.newline,"<b r>")
end if

Thanks - that really helps,

Tom

"tshad" <ts**********@f tsolutions.com> wrote in message
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"Mark Fitzpatrick" <ma******@fitzm e.com> wrote in message
news:u2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP11.phx.gbl. ..

> Tom,
> Remember, line-breaks from a text box or text area are not the same > thing as an HTML line break. Basically you'll need to replace the linefeed > characters in the text box with the HTML <br>. This is a fairly
> straightforward operation using the Replace() method of the string
> functionality in .Net, such as
> varChar.ToStrin g().Replace(Env ironment.NewLin e,"<br>")

Does this replace all Newlines?

Also, do I need to move the data to string or can I do it directly from
either my label control or data coming from my dataset, such as:

if not (ClientReader(" achievements") is DBNull.Value) then
achievements.te xt = ClientReader("a chievements")
achievements.To String().replac e(environment.n ewline,"<br>") ->
doesn't seem to work here
end if

or can I do it directly in the ClientReader line above?

Thanks,

Tom.

>
> Hope this helps,
> Mark Fitzpatrick
> Microsoft MVP- FrontPage
>
> "tshad" <ts**********@f tsolutions.com> wrote in message
> news:OQ******** ********@tk2msf tngp13.phx.gbl. ..
>>I have a textbox that I am storing as text (or as a varChar). The
>>field
>>has multiple lines in it (not wrapped).
>>
>> When I read it back into a multiline textbox, it works fine. But when I >> read it back into a label, it shows all lines together.
>>
>> Is there a way to get the Label to display the lines separately?
>>
>> I could use textbox and get rid of the border and set enable to false,
>> but then it greys the text, which I don't want.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tom.
>>
>
>