Which Type of Control To Use

[Johnson]

I want to let users enter text - multiple lines - up to about 800
characters. I want to preserve line breaks and white space, if possible, to
a database. In subsequent sessions, the users should be able to retrieve the
text and see it just as they had previously entered it (line breaks and
all).

Which control should I use?

Thanks!

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

You might consider a third party solution such as these:
http://www.textboxpro.net/demo/default.aspx
http://www.richtextbox.com/richtextbox/

Or here are a couple free options:
http://www.exporttechnologies.com/softwareDownloads.asp
http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/
http://www.freetextbox.com/

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I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://Steve.Orr.net
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I want to let users enter text - multiple lines - up to about 800
characters. I want to preserve line breaks and white space, if possible, to
a database. In subsequent sessions, the users should be able to retrieve
the text and see it just as they had previously entered it (line breaks and
all).

Which control should I use?

Thanks!

[Rick Strahl [MVP]]

Hi Johnson,

Some of the third party rich controls are pretty nice but they can also be a
pain to set up because it takes more than just plopping a simple control on
a form.

However, if you need only plain text there's no need for this sort of stuff.
If you're dealing with plain text have a look here:

http://west-wind.com/weblog/posts/1499.aspx

which has a few routines I commonly use to clean up text from user input.
You can just run that on the input from a TextBox/TextArea.

Regards,

+++ Rick ---

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Rick Strahl
West Wind Technologies
http://www.west-wind.com/
http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/
http://www.west-wind.com/wwThreads/
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"Johnson" <JM**@SpamThis.com> wrote in message
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I want to let users enter text - multiple lines - up to about 800
characters. I want to preserve line breaks and white space, if possible, to a database. In subsequent sessions, the users should be able to retrieve the text and see it just as they had previously entered it (line breaks and
all).

Which control should I use?

Thanks!

[Johnson]

Thanks Rick! Very useful stuff you have posted.

"Rick Strahl [MVP]" <ri********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi Johnson,

Some of the third party rich controls are pretty nice but they can also be
a
pain to set up because it takes more than just plopping a simple control
on
a form.

However, if you need only plain text there's no need for this sort of
stuff.
If you're dealing with plain text have a look here:

http://west-wind.com/weblog/posts/1499.aspx

which has a few routines I commonly use to clean up text from user input.
You can just run that on the input from a TextBox/TextArea.

Regards,

+++ Rick ---

--

Rick Strahl
West Wind Technologies
http://www.west-wind.com/
http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/
http://www.west-wind.com/wwThreads/
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"Johnson" <JM**@SpamThis.com> wrote in message
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I want to let users enter text - multiple lines - up to about 800
characters. I want to preserve line breaks and white space, if possible,

to

a database. In subsequent sessions, the users should be able to retrieve

the

text and see it just as they had previously entered it (line breaks and
all).

Which control should I use?

Thanks!