Question

I have a formatted text that contains Bolded, italicsed, and other styles implemented inside the message. I have this message stored in a Database. Now I want to implement these tags into work inside the a field inside the DataList. How do I do it?

Doesn’t work. It just shows up the tags as such. Any help?

Answer 1

If you mean that your ‘message’ contains formatted HTML, you should simply HTMLDecode it after the DataBinder has evaluated the value of the ‘message’ property. For example:

' 'message' contains the string '<b>Hello World!</b>' ' Within the DataList: <ItemTemplate>   <asp:Label ID='lbl1' runat='server' Text='<%# Server.HtmlDecode(Eval('message').ToString()) %>' /> </ItemTemplate>