Use Pre to show text in a webpage

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Hi,

I try to show the program text in a web page just like CodeProject; however, somehow I just can not get the right combination! I tried all 4 combinations with no result. What is the secret?

XML

<%
CR = chr(10)

Text = "<table border=""1"" bordercolor=""#660066"">" & CR
Text = Text & "<tr><td>test line 1</td></tr>" & CR
Text = Text & "<tr><td>test line 2</td></tr>" & CR


        NText = replace(text, "<", "&lt;")
        Ntext = replace(Ntext, ">", "&gt;" )
        Ntext = replace(Ntext, "&", "&amp;")
        Ntext = replace(Ntext, """", "&quot;")
        Ntext = replace(Ntext, Chr(10), "<br>")


%>
<table border="1" bordercolor="#FF0000">
<tr><td>
<b>Original No Pre</b><br><%=text%>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<b>Original wz Pre</b><br><pre><%=text%></pre>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<b>Converted No Pre</b><br><%=ntext%>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<b>Converted wz Pre</b><br><pre><%=ntext%></pre>
</td></tr>
</table>

rgds,
kfl.

Posted 23-Nov-10 6:16am

KFLee

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fjdiewornncalwe · Answer 1 · 2010-11-23T06:18:00

Solution 1

You have to define the styles for the different tag types in a Stylesheet to customize the formatting and then include that in your web control/form.

Posted 23-Nov-10 6:18am

fjdiewornncalwe

Updated 23-Nov-10 6:19am

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KFLee 26-Nov-10 5:10am

can you be more specific?

Alper Hankendi · Answer 2 · 2011-01-26T08:28:00

XML

<textarea name="sample" width=38 height=10>
<%= Server.HTMLEncode(sValue) %>
</textarea>

VB

Function HTMLDecode(sText)
    Dim I
    sText = Replace(sText, "&quot;", Chr(34))
    sText = Replace(sText, "&lt;"  , Chr(60))
    sText = Replace(sText, "&gt;"  , Chr(62))
    sText = Replace(sText, "&amp;" , Chr(38))
    sText = Replace(sText, "&nbsp;", Chr(32))
    For I = 1 to 255
        sText = Replace(sText, "&#" & I & ";", Chr(I))
    Next
    HTMLDecode = sText
End Function

You can do it on client-side with javascript functions