Question

I am imitating my email client on a asp page. I have a gridview that displays things like from,subject,attachments, and the body. The body is html. When I view it in the grid view and set htmlencode= ‘false’ i can see it correctly. However, I want to the display it inside a textbox, so it can edit and forward it or reply.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Answer 1

Load the HTML into a rich text editor to enable to user to edit it – be aware that most rich text editors out there are not designed to create email safe HTML and they will require a substantial amount of tweaking if you are going to support more than the most basic formatting.

Some example rich text editors:

• http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/
• http://www.freetextbox.com/