"PRE"-Style formatting in HTML Output or Label

[Guest]

I'm taking text from a multi-line TextBox into a database. Then, on other
pages, I'm displaying that text as read-only. But the problem is, when I set
the Text property of a Label control to that text, all the carriage returns
and other text-based formatting goes away because it's just dumping HTML.

Is there a way to set the display of a control like a Label to do the
old-fashioned "PRE" thing where it displays returns, spaces, etc.?

Alex

 

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi Alex,

I've just replied your another thread about replacing the newline chars
with html newline chars <br/>, not sure which approach you'll chose finally
(replace or use <pre> element). The "pre" element is still available and
you can put a <pre> element around your label control or directly around
databinding expression (if not use label). e.g.

==============
<asp:Repeater ID="Repeater1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1">
<ItemTemplate>

<pre>
<asp:Label ID="lblCategoryName" runat="server" Text='<%#
Eval("Description") %>'></asp:Label>
</pre>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>
==================

Hope this also helps.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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