enable HTML in web Forms

[ralphtrent]

Hello
I would like to enable HTML in my forms. Here is more info. I have a textarea, where a person enters data that will be stored in a database. If they want to use <b> they can, but when it gets printed out it gets printed out as <b> not bolded. The resons why is because I had to replace < and > with thier ASCII codes (+lt and +gt), reason being, someone actually wanted the brackets as part of their submission, so when the data is pulled from the database it is read as +ltb+gt hello +lt/b+gt. My questions is, is there a way to only ascii code the <> that are not known html tags with out having to do a whole lot of work? if I so not replace the <> with the code, the asp page sees <extu> (lets say thats what the user entered) as an HTML tag and will not display it properly. I know this is confusing, so if you need me to explain it better, i can try.

Ralph
PS I had to replace the & with in lt and gt with + so you can get a better understanding of what was happening. When I previewed my post with the & it was publishing < and >

 

[Bullschmidt]

You might still convert < to &lt; but also have a system for a few tags where a user can use and for bold and then you would Replace() those with <b> and </b>.

Best regards,
J. Paul Schmidt, Freelance ASP Web Developer

http://www.Bullschmidt.com

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