Question

I’ve a label in an asp.net page that gets its text from a global resource file somthing like this:

<asp:Label  ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="<%$ Resources:MyResource, MyString %>" />

The resource string for MyString contains text with a linebreak like:

line1

line2

When the label is rendered I get the following html

<span id="Label1">line1line2</span>

but instead I want it to be rendered as

<span id="Label1">line1<br/>line2</span>

Is there a standard way making this happen without putting br-Tags in the resource file or manually replacing text in the resource string?

Answer 1

Resources are just plain text, you’ll have to post-process them after pulling the data from the resource file to change newlines to <br/>‘s.