Breaks in labels

[Chris]

I am writing some text in a multiline text box to a database . When I
display this in a label all the breaks have disappeared. I will be using
formviews a lot so I need a solution that works with bound data. In ASP I
used to use the replace function to replace chr(13) with "<br>". I am not
sure the how to do this in .net. Is there some simple setting or do I have
create my own version of a label and overide an event. I am a little unsure
of how to do this. Regards, Chris.

 

[Mark Rae]

I am writing some text in a multiline text box to a database . When I
display this in a label all the breaks have disappeared. I will be using
formviews a lot so I need a solution that works with bound data. In ASP I
used to use the replace function to replace chr(13) with "<br>". I am not
sure the how to do this in .net. Is there some simple setting or do I have
create my own version of a label and overide an event. I am a little unsure
of how to do this. Regards, Chris.

string strText = "This is a multiline label\\r\\nwith a line break";
MyLabel.Text = strText.Replace(\\r\\n, "<br />");

 

[Chris]

Is there any way of building a composite control and overiding its databound
(I'm guessing the event name) so I can use the label without do the code all
the time? Bear in mind I am quite new the .net. Regards, Chris.

 

[Mark Rae]

Is there any way of building a composite control and overiding its
databound (I'm guessing the event name) so I can use the label without do
the code all the time? Bear in mind I am quite new the .net.

You could build a control if you wanted to, but I can't really see that it
would save you any time and/or code...

However, it might be worthwhile as a learning exercise:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sour...-GBGB220GB220&q="ASP.NET"+"composite+control"

 

[bruce barker]

your own control is a good solution and pretty simple:


public class MultiLineLabel : Label
{
override string Text
{
get {return base.Text;}
set {base.Text = value.Replace("\\r\\n","<br />"); }
}
}


-- bruce (sqlwork.com)