Question

I have a .NET 4.0 website, where there is some text on the login page and home page stored in SQL Server 2008. There’s a page in the site to edit both of these texts.

When I click the link to edit, they display fine in a multiline textbox. However, all line feeds are doubled when the stored procedure retrieves them from the database.

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[usp_WEB_getSiteConfig]
AS
    SELECT login_text, home_text FROM WEB_Site_Config
    RETURN

Text area contains:

RHIOTest Home Page Text

RHIOTest Home Page Text Line 2

Displayed on home page:

RHIOTest Home Page Text



RHIOTest Home Page Text Line 2

Answer 1

The culprit was lines like these:

lblLoginMessage.Text = login_text.Replace ("\r\n", "<br />&nbsp;<br />");

What I don’t understand is how this has been in production all this time without the customer reporting the problem…