Question

I’m trying to write some text to a website using the System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode function in C#. The string parameter that I give to the function has some Environment.Newline’s in it, but they are not written out on the website. Does anyone know why this is and how I can fix it. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Newline is written out as a physical line break so you will have to either wrap in a pre:

response.Write("<pre>" + HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(str) + "</pre>");

Or replace the new line with a BR AFTER you have HtmlEncoded (or it’ll encode the BR as well):

response.Write(HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(str).Replace("\n", "<br />"));