Render text with line breaks

[Lloyd Sheen]

I have text which I need to render to a page. The text is stored in SQL
Server and contains CR/LF's. I need to display the text maintaining the
line breaks. What would be the best method to do this. I have tried labels
and replacing the CR/LF with a </br> but the resulting HTML does not contain
the </br> tags.

Lloyd Sheen

 

[Guest]

First off, it's <br /> . Second off, you'll need to post some code.

 

[Lloyd Sheen]

Changing to <br/> did not help.

Protected WithEvents lblVendorText As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label

Dim psTmp As String = Replace(poVI.VendorText, vbCrLf, "<br/>")
lblVendorText.Text = poVI.VendorText

During debugging I can see the <br/> tag in the psTmp variable but rendered
page shows no line breaks.

Lloyd Sheen

 

[Marina]

Well, of course it's not working. You are assigning the label's text to
poVI.VendorText, instead of psTemp. So it's just displaying the original.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Your second theory is correct - you need to replace all CRLFs with <br>
tags. If it isn't working, you're llooking for the wrong character(s). Try
using Environment.NewLine for the character to replace.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
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Microsoft MVP
I get paid good money to
solve puzzles for a living

 

[Lloyd Sheen]

Thanks, takes someone else to see the simple things.

Lloyd Sheen

 

[Guest]

Just because it's fun to give bad advice:
You could always blast the text directly into a <pre> tag, or (better) use a
css style with "whitespace: pre;" on the element you put the text into. This
is probably far dirtier than the <br> replacement, but it can be workable if
you're lazy like me.

 

[Guest]

Correction: the css style rule is "white-spacere;" with the hyphen.