How do I preserve line breaks in my displayed data? 1

[autumnEND]

Im new to asp net, and am having trouble preserving line breaks in the displayed data
The data is entered using a MultiLine text box, and stored in a sql database. And then the displayed data is displayed in a label , The label is situated insde a DataList control. As can be seen below

<aspataList ID="DataList1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1">
<ItemTemplate>
<Asp:Label ID="newsARTICLELabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("newsARTICLE") %>'>
</Asp:Label>
</ItemTemplate>
</aspataList>

Does anyone know how i can , display (preserve) the line breaks?

I have done this in asp using mx2004, but cant seem to get this to work using Microsoft visual web.

Any pointers would be appreciated. thanks.

 

[RTomes]

Text='<%# Replace(Server.HTMLEncode(Eval("newsARTICLE")),vbcrlf,"<br>") %>

May have to make some small adjustments for C#

 

[autumnEND]

Hi thanks for the reply, i entered the code as below.

<Asp:Label ID="newsARTICLELabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Replace(Server.HTMLEncode(Eval("newsARTICLE")),vbcrlf,"<br>") %>'> </Asp:Label>

when i ran the page it gave an error of " Compiler Error Message: BC30512: Option Strict On disallows implicit conversions from 'System.Object' to 'String'"

i have the data stored in the database as varchar(max)maybe this is causing a problem, or maybe the fact that its displayed in a label is a problem

 

[RTomes]

Text='<%# Replace(Server.HTMLEncode(Convert.ToString(Eval("newsARTICLE"))),vbcrlf,"<br>") %>

You need to convert to string then.

 

[xr280xr]

An alternative would be putting the data in a table instead of a label, setting the width to whatever width you want (the same width as your multiline textbox?) and allow text wrap within the row.

 

[ca8msm]

Or you could simply replace the data in the actual sql then you don't need to apply any formatting at all.



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