Textarea line break

[rsshetty]

I searched the forums and was unable to find a solution to this problem of mine.

I take in data through a textarea and display it later in a <td> tag. I am unable to get the new line characters to display.

While displaying the data I have tried

replace(data,VbCrLf,"<br>")
and
replace(data,chr(13),"<br>")

Additional information:
The data is stored in a field of datatype Text in a sql server 2000 database table.
Also, while taking in the user input, data is passed to the database through XML forms.

Any ideas on how I can get new line characters to display?



rsshetty.
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[rsshetty]

Well I just enclosed the text within <pre> tags and it worked.



rsshetty.
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[manarth]

Using <pre> is an alternative, but it comes with it's own restrictions. Try this:

[COLOR=red]data = [/color]Replace(data, VbCrLf, "<br>")

The replace function doesn't inherently replace the data, it simply returns a string with the replacements.

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[rsshetty]

No, that solution did not work. <pre> does the job so I think I'll stick with it for now.

Thanks all the same.

rsshetty.
It's always in the details.