Question

Im working on a bulk email sending app and have a page with a multiline textbox which I am wanting to use as a way of allowing a user to enter the email body text.

I need to format the text within my textbox to HTML, most importantly I need to format linebreaks to HTML, however I cant seem to do this.

The method everyone seems to say to use is:

textOut.Replace("\r\n", "<br />")

But this just does nothing. My Textbox looks like this:

   <asp:TextBox runat="server" 
                            ID="txtMailBody" 
                            TextMode="MultiLine" 
                            Width="650" 
                            Height="150"/>

When I enter text in the textbox such as:

Line 1

Line 2
Line 3

It always outputs like

Line 1 Line 2 Line 3

Am I doing something wrong here?

Answer 1

Try this

txtMailBody.Text.Replace(Environment.NewLine, "<br />")

Hope it helps