how to display multiline text retrived from db

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How to display retrieved text from database into multiline not single horizontal line in
asp.net web project ?

test1604 · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-22T14:15:21.630

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For edit form use textarea html tag. Also you can use WYSIWYG editors(for example CKEditor). For view you can use any tag for display multiline text.

edited Dec 22 '13 at 14:15

answered Dec 22 '13 at 14:09

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more explaination please !! – Aya Mohammad Dec 22 '13 at 14:10
can I limit the number of lines ? – Aya Mohammad Dec 22 '13 at 14:18
If you put your text on a p tag, for example, the browser will wrap the text into multiple lines, but on a web page line breaks does not break lines... – aledpardo Dec 22 '13 at 14:21
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You have to use
tag to insert break line, on your page – test1604 Dec 22 '13 at 14:22
no I can't ! because all text are retrieved from database ... then I put the text into a label – Aya Mohammad Dec 22 '13 at 14:24
Before you print page, you can replace all line breaks with
tags, use regex, it is very effective – test1604 Dec 22 '13 at 14:25
Look here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5076466/javascript-replace-n-with-br – test1604 Dec 22 '13 at 14:26
Hmm the problem is : I retrieve this text into a Label ... so I can't manipulate it ... but this way I'll try to retrieve it in a different way – Aya Mohammad Dec 22 '13 at 14:30
` ` and this is the code behind : ` articlesDL.DataSource = DS.select_all_articles(); articlesDL.DataBind();` – Aya Mohammad Dec 22 '13 at 14:38
Actually, an asp:label is rendered as a span tag, you can manipulate you text before set it into your label text – aledpardo Dec 22 '13 at 14:41
Can you use textbox with multiline like here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4508051/textarea-control-asp-net-c-sharp? – test1604 Dec 22 '13 at 14:41
@test1604 it won't be nice looking because of the scroll if I made it multiline ! – Aya Mohammad Dec 22 '13 at 14:44
Try to increase number of rows – test1604 Dec 22 '13 at 14:48
@test1604 increase rows of what ? – Aya Mohammad Dec 22 '13 at 14:50
rows of textbox if you use it – test1604 Dec 22 '13 at 14:51

how to display multiline text retrived from db

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