Display Memo Text

[Gmansky]

I have a dataItem that is a text memo field. When I use
<%#container.DataItem('memoText')%>, it displays it with no line breaks.

Is there a function to convert the line breaks on the memo field?

Thanks,
George

[Simon Harris]

You'll need to replace line breaks: &vbcrlf
With line break tag <br>

And vice versa when putting the data into a textarea for editing.

Simon.

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I have a dataItem that is a text memo field. When I use
<%#container.DataItem('memoText')%>, it displays it with no line breaks.

Is there a function to convert the line breaks on the memo field?

Thanks,
George

[Rick Strahl [MVP]]

Hi George,

When you display this in a textbox it should display fine. If you use a label you need to convert the line breaks with <br> or <p> tags. Here's a routine that I use for this:
/// <summary>
/// Fixes a plain text field for display as HTML by replacing carriage returns
/// with the appropriate br and p tags for breaks.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="String Text">Input string</param>
/// <returns>Fixed up string</returns>
public static string DisplayMemo(string HtmlText)
{
HtmlText = HtmlText.Replace("\r\n","\r");
HtmlText = HtmlText.Replace("\n","\r");
HtmlText = HtmlText.Replace("\r\r","<p>");
HtmlText = HtmlText.Replace("\r","<br>");
return HtmlText;
}
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"Gmansky" <gm*****@starmd.net> wrote in message news:eO**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

I have a dataItem that is a text memo field. When I use
<%#container.DataItem('memoText')%>, it displays it with no line breaks.

Is there a function to convert the line breaks on the memo field?

Thanks,
George