texboxt paragraph tags

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Hi,

I have a textbox for user text entry. Default asp textbox seems not containing carriage return or pharagraphs. How can it be done? In web project VS I could not find richtextbox too (not sure if richtextbox would work).

Kind Regards.

Posted 28-Dec-10 7:48am

AAndrews

Updated 28-Dec-10 8:28am

JF2015

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Solution 1

Do you have the TextMode property set to MultiLine?

Posted 28-Dec-10 8:00am

Marc A. Brown

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AAndrews 28-Dec-10 14:06pm

Yes. For example i enter following text.

Example sentence1.
Example sentence2.

It is shown as:
Example sentence1. Example sentence2. (not same format with entry)

Texboxt sends the text to sql table. A simple column field varchar(100).

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-Dec-10 23:55pm

Marc, I just credited you for this answer. I provided correct answer for both System.Windows.Forms and WPF, but people pointed out the question was about ASP.NET, then I tried to test ASP.NET, and Multiline happened to solve the problem.

Thank you!

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-28T08:54:00

Solution 2

For System.Windows.Forms or WPF:

C#

myTextBox.AcceptsReturn = true;

ASP.NET:

Set TextMode to Multiline

Posted 28-Dec-10 8:54am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 28-Dec-10 12:21pm

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy 28-Dec-10 15:04pm

OP said "In web project VS I could not ...", and that I'd guess makes it ASP.NET instead. :)

AAndrews 28-Dec-10 15:07pm

I guess asp: textboxes have not that property.
That comment textbox is example. When we enter a sentence it is shown same format. Default asp textboxes does not contain line breaks i guess.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-Dec-10 15:55pm

Oops!
But I don't believe there is no solution. Let's see... where we put our CodeProject comments is a textarea...

AAndrews 28-Dec-10 18:15pm

I could not resolve with textarea too. Some topics about that issue mentions to manually read incoming textbox text string to replace escape sequence and related sequences with relevant html tags. Somehow its another issue that keeping the text entries in sql with html tags. Another side i am not sure if gridview will recognize <br> tags to present a string in boundfield.

Kind Regards,

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-Dec-10 18:22pm

I tried to use Multiline -- it works. You have an answer.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-Dec-10 23:53pm

I think you have misunderstanding of <br> tag. It only work in HTML markup. What's inside a text box is text, not HTML.
Anyway, as I say, the problem is resolved with Multiline.
Credit to Mark A. Brown

AAndrews 29-Dec-10 11:29am

Hi sakryukov

I could able to resolve with manually read the input text for escape sequence replace with html tags. I guess due my bad english you may have misunderstood. The data is presented in gridview. When i replace sequences with tags, it ends up with exception for not secure by client side to send tags to sql.

I could able to resolve with sequence replace at render time of gridview via the itemtemplate. You may be right about textarea about multiline.

i marked as resolved sorry for misunderstanding.

Kind Regards,

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Dec-10 19:40pm

Thank you for accepting the problem as resolved.
Best wished in New Year!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Dec-10 13:23pm

This is funny: the answer is accepted, but the vote is "2". How it can be possible?

Espen Harlinn 28-Feb-11 15:19pm

Good effort, my 5

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Mar-11 3:40am

Thank you.
--SA