How do convert text to HTML?

[BADEV]

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.

[Alex Papadimoulis]

Checkout the System.Web.HttpServerUtility.HTMLEncode function ...

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

Alex Papadimoulis
"BADEV" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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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.

I'm doing that already but that doesn't do the trick.
somehow cr/lf has to be converted to <BR> etc. and
htmlencode is not doing that.

-----Original Message-----
Checkout the System.Web.HttpServerUtility.HTMLEncode function ...
eg, Label1.Text = HTMLEncode( Textbox1.Text )

Alex Papadimoulis
"BADEV" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in messagenews:11*****************************@phx.gbl...

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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[mikeb]

BADEV wrote:

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.

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.

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mikeb

Thanks, that did the trick. I just have to fix the
styles now :-) but that's an simpler problem.

-----Original Message-----
BADEV wrote:

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.
HttpUtility.HtmlEncode() will make it so special

characters aredisplayed properly.

Then try wrapping the text in <pre> </pre> tags. That will preserve linebreaks. 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 andreplace to change line breaks (\n, \r\n, or whatever you decide is aline break) to the "<br/>" tag.

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mikeb
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