Displaying a Memo Field

[minckle]

What is the best way of displaying a Memo field on a webpage???

Im trying to display a customer enquiry/complaint and then undreneath the response. Both of which are being retreived from a database.

I've tried displaying it in a multi-line textbox but i'm not convinced.

What would you suggest??

 

[Isadore]

minckle: I generally use a textbox with multi-line turned on; but can't say I've run into very long memos - I'm sure there is an upper limit on the textbox (you can do a search here and try and find that limit; it has been mentioned a few times). The scroll bars turn on automatically so it has worked for me. You could also control in code or there may be a built-in function for this, the height of the textbox, expanding it when the character number becomes a certain length.

Perhaps creating a scrollable div element may help; perhaps using a span element inside that. I would say that unless the textbox has an upper limit that is not compatible I would use it; but if it not sufficient then perhaps caputre the text in a string and place it, for example, between span tags, or perhaps plain html text.

 

[dvannoy]

I set the max length of my multi line textbox to 1000000000 anything above that is an invalid property. try it.

 

[Isadore]

dvannoy: What is the statement that sets it? Just curious.

 

[jbenson001]

Textbox.MaxLength = 1000000000