how to display an exact format of string or words in textbox?.

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how to display an exact format of string or words in textbox?.

this is my code below.

when i write:

"hello world this
this is a test article".

I expect that what i write should display in that format.but what happen is that in display txtArticles it display continous like this.

"hello world this is a test article".

<

XML

<div style="margin-left:200px; width: 756px;">
            <br />
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
            <asp:Label ID="lblNewsFeed" runat="server" Text="News Feed:" Font-Bold="True"
                Font-Size="Larger" ForeColor="White" style="font-size: 35pt" Width="240px"
                Font-Italic="True"></asp:Label>
            <br />
            <br />
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
            <asp:Image ID="imgNewsFeed" runat="server" Height="102px" Width="116px"  /> <br />
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
            <asp:FileUpload ID="FileUploadNewsFeed" runat="server" ForeColor="White" />
            <br />
            <br />
            <asp:Label ID="lblTitle" runat="server" Text="Title:" Font-Bold="True"
                Font-Italic="False" ForeColor="White" style="font-size: 15pt"></asp:Label> <br />
            <asp:TextBox ID="txtTitle" runat="server" Width="570px"></asp:TextBox>
            <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator1" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Please Write the Title!" Font-Bold="True" Font-Size="15pt" ForeColor="#FFFF99" style="font-size: 13pt" ControlToValidate="txtTitle" ></asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
            <br />
            <br />
            <asp:Label ID="lblArticles" runat="server" Text="Articles:" Font-Bold="True"
                ForeColor="White" style="font-size: 15pt"></asp:Label> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<asp:Label ID="lbl_Save" runat="server" Font-Bold="True" Font-Size="15pt" ForeColor="#FFFF99" ></asp:Label>
            <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator2" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Please Write the Article!" Font-Bold="True" Font-Size="15pt" ForeColor="#FFFF99" style="font-size: 13pt" ControlToValidate="txtArticles" ></asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
            <br />
            <asp:TextBox ID="txtArticles" runat="server" TextMode="MultiLine" Wrap="true"
                Height="350px" Width="570px" CssClass="NoresizeTextBox" ></asp:TextBox> <br />
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
            <asp:Button ID="btnClear" runat="server" Text="Clear"
                BackColor="#669999" BorderColor="#009999" Font-Bold="True" Font-Italic="False"
                ForeColor="White" OnClick="Clear_Click" CausesValidation="False" />

            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<asp:Button ID="btnPost" runat="server" Text="Post Article"
                BackColor="#669999" BorderColor="#009999" Font-Bold="True" Font-Italic="False"
                ForeColor="White" OnClick="ArticlePost_Click"/>

        </div>

>

C#

<<pre lang="xml">asp:Repeater ID="Repeater1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1">
                        <HeaderTemplate >
                            <table style="border-left-color:#75A4A4; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2.5px;  border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2.5px; border-top-color:#75A4A4;" width="570" >
                        </HeaderTemplate>

                        <ItemTemplate>
                        <tr style="border-right-color:#669999">
                            <td>
                            <asp:Label ID="lblDate" runat="server" style="border-bottom-color :#719F9F; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2.5px;"  Font-Size="11" Font-Bold="true" ForeColor="white" TextMode="MultiLine" Rows="0" Enabled="False" ReadOnly="True" BackColor="#669999" Wrap="True" Height="18px" Width="570px" BorderWidth="0px"  Text='<%#Eval("Date") %>' /> <br />
                            <asp:Label ID="lblTime" runat="server" style="border-bottom-color :#719F9F; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2.5px;"  Font-Size="11" Font-Bold="true" ForeColor="white" TextMode="MultiLine" Rows="0" Enabled="False" ReadOnly="True" BackColor="#669999" Wrap="True" Height="18px" Width="570px" BorderWidth="0px"  Text='<%#Eval("Time") %>'/> <br /> <br /> <br />
                            <asp:TextBox ID="txtTitle" runat="server" Font-Names="Times New Roman" Font-Size="25px" ForeColor="white" Font-Bold="true" Rows="0" TextMode="MultiLine" Enabled="False" ReadOnly="True" BackColor="#669999" Wrap="True" Height="70px" Width="570px" BorderWidth="0px" style="text-align:center" CssClass="NoresizeTextBox" Text='<%#Eval("Title") %>'/> <br />
                            <asp:ImageButton ID="ImageButton1" runat="server" BackColor="#669999" ImageUrl='<%#Eval("ImageName", "~/NewsFeedImages/{0}") %>' Height="150px" Width="150px" style="margin-left:210px; cursor:pointer"  OnClientClick="return LoadDiv(this.src);" Title="View Image"  />
                            </td>

                        </tr>

                        <tr style="border-right-color:#669999;" >
                            <td class=" comment more"  <asp:TextBox ID="txtArticle" runat="server" style="text-align:left;" ForeColor="white" Font-Size="13"  Wrap="true" TextMode="MultiLine" Enabled="true" ReadOnly="True" BackColor="#669999" Width="570px" Height="100px" BorderWidth="0px"  CssClass="NoresizeTextBox"  Text='<%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,"Articles").ToString() %>'></asp:TextBox>
                            </td>
                        </tr>

                        <tr>
                            <td style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width:2px; border-bottom-color: #75A4A4;">
                            <br />
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        </ItemTemplate>

                        <FooterTemplate>
                            </table>
                        </FooterTemplate>
                    </asp:Repeater>
                    <asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server"
                        ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:DatabaseConnectionString25 %>"
                        SelectCommand="SELECT [Title], [Articles], [Date], [Time], [ImageName] FROM [NewsFeedTbl] ORDER BY [id] DESC">
                    </asp:SqlDataSource

>

Posted 26-May-13 6:42am

brighteyes24

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David_Wimbley · Answer 1 · 2013-05-26T06:50:00

Dear god what is with all the   's (btw none of that code is relevant from what i can tell), since this is HTML in order to do a line break you need to add

"hello world this
this is a test article".

To get this format to look like this in HTML you would do

"hello world this <br />
this is a test article".

Tah dah

However you specifically say "Textbox". In html, a textbox (input type="text") is a single line input, I think what you are looking for is a text area.

XML

<textarea style="width:400;">
 "hello world this
this is a test article".

 </textarea>

By using a text area you could simply type your content in as is and it would show as desired.

Or you could use the <pre> element as well.

XML

<pre>
 "hello world this
this is a test article".
 
</pre>