Question

I have a list view that does something like this in the ItemTemplate:

<div><%# Eval("QualificationDescription") %></div>

My problem is that QualificationDescription has line breaks in it, if I put it in a TextBox it will display them but if I put it in a div it does not. Is there anyway to get the line breaks to show in a div?

Answer 1

You could do this with the following code

  <div><%# AddLineBreaks(Eval("QualificationDescription")) %></div>

codebehind:

protected static string AddLineBreaks(object qualDescription) {
    if (qualDescription == null) {
        return "";
    }
    return qualDescription.ToString().Replace(Environment.NewLine, "<br/>");
}