Question

I got the data from database into my dataset is and then i bind into my repeater control but its is been showing like “Prince Antony G”. It eliminated the Spaces.
and also i export those data into excel, In excel also the spaces were removed.
I need the show data whatever in my Database. Any idea to solve this problem.

In stack overflow Question box also remove more spaces in between two words

My Excel Coding:

    DataTable dt = new DataTable("Report");
    DataRow dr;
    dt.Columns.Add("Name");   

    for (int i = 0; i < dt_Status.Rows.Count; i++)
    {
        dr = dt.NewRow();

        dr["Name"] ="<pre>"+ dt_Status.Rows[i]["NAME"].ToString() +"</pre>";
        dt.Rows.Add(dr);
    }

    HttpResponse response = HttpContext.Current.Response;

    // first let's clean up the response.object
    response.Clear();
    response.Charset = "";

    // set the response mime type for excel
    response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel";
    response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=Report.xls");

    // create a string writer
    using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter())
    {
        using (HtmlTextWriter htw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw))
        {
            // instantiate a datagrid
            DataGrid dg = new DataGrid();
            dg.DataSource = dt;
            dg.DataBind();
            dg.RenderControl(htw);
            response.Write(sw.ToString());
            response.End();
        }
    }

After updating my code i got the excel output as:

I need to display in a single cell.

Answer 1

html doesn’t recognize multiple spaces.

You you put your data between <pre></pre> tags to say that is is per-formatted.

Or you could replace the space with  . This is a non breaking space character.

Space is used for formatting your html code, and hence if you have more than one space, it gets wrapped to just one.