Text Area html Control

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I have textarea Control in my aspx page like below:

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<body>
    <form id="form1"  runat="server">
    <div>
    <textarea id="write"  runat="server" cols="40" rows="6" readonly="readonly"></textarea>
    </div>
    <asp:Button ID="hi" Text="submit" runat="server" />
    </form>
</body>

My code behind page is like this:

C#

Employee er = new Employee { FirstName="hi" , LastName="sunny"};
System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
sb.Append("<div class="\">");
sb.Append(" FirstName="+er.FirstName);
sb.Append("<br />");
sb.Append(" LastName="+er.LastName);
sb.Append("<a href="\">snowball</a>");
sb.Append("</div>");
write.InnerText = sb.ToString();

this code is written in page load event.

I want to show formatted text in textarea control but it showing all html tag as well.
Can anyone please help me find the issue?

Thanks!

Posted 26-Apr-11 21:28pm

spydeehunk

Updated 26-Apr-11 21:41pm

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Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib · Answer 1 · 2011-04-26T22:00:00

Solution 1

Hi,

You have to use a text editor for your purpose. You can't put HTML content within a text area because it's displayed as-is.
http://ckeditor.com/demo[^]
OR
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/tryit/full.php[^]

Hope this will help.

Posted 26-Apr-11 22:00pm

Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

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walterhevedeich 27-Apr-11 4:08am

Good links. Voted 5.

Monjurul Habib 27-Apr-11 15:16pm

nice link.my 5.

walterhevedeich · Answer 2 · 2011-04-26T22:05:00

Solution 2

I agree with the first answer. My 5.

You may also want to use the control below.

RichTextBox user control for ASP.NET 1.1[^]

Posted 26-Apr-11 22:05pm

walterhevedeich