ASP text area problem

[TRACEYMARYLAND]

hi i have textarea and i allow user to type in so for example i have

line1
line2
line3
line4

In database i see just line1 when i do delete after the line 1 i see line2 comes in....so it must have a carriage return in the data.

So now i did to display it
What i want to do is just display in not inside of text area so that user can print this out.

<%widthArea = rs("FIELDNAMESIZE")

I tried this
widthArea = Replace(widthArea, vbCrLf,"<br>")
but it came out blank.

What i had before is this so if the text is greater than
my width then it just loops around.

It be nice if i can just loop around when i get a carriage return but i could not get the above to work.

longtext = ""
i = ""
txt = ""
longtext = rs("FIELD_TEXT")
if len(longtext) > 0 then
for i = 1 to len(longtext) step (widthArea - 5)
txt = mid(longtext, i, (widthArea - 5) )
Response.write txt & "<BR>"
next
end if

Any ideas.

 

[neilharris]

You may find that

widthArea = Replace(widthArea, chr(13),"<br>")

works better, as I think that the textarea only puts a carriage return and not a linefeed as well.

 

[DreXor]

if you're just printing it to page and want to keep the formatting :

Response.Write Server.HTMLEncode(rs("FIELDNAMESIZE"))

DreX
aKa - Robert
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[ahmun]

http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/asp/quickref/server_htmlencode.html

Earnie Eng

 

[TRACEYMARYLAND]

Thanks i got it