Question

Which is the best way to load text into a webpage using ASP.NET

I have 3 records in a MS SQL database table. Each record would correspond to a paragraph in a webpage.

Table:

The HTML code for the About us page would look like this (note I put the corresponding paragraphs) :

<div id="content-1b">
    <div id="content-1-1b">
        </div>
    <div id="content-1-2b"><p class="none">paragraph 1</p>
                           <p class="nonetop">paragraph 2</p>
        </div>
</div>

<div id="content-3b"><p class="nonetop">paragraph 3</p>
    </div>

Regards,
Tea

Answer 1

Setting your divs or paragraph tags as runat=”server” with an ID will allow you to access innerhtml/text

HTML:

<div id="content-1b">
    <div id="content-1-1b">
        </div>
    <div id="content-1-2b"><p class="none" id="p1" runat="server">paragraph 1</p>
                           <p id="p2" runat="server" class="nonetop">paragraph 2</p>
        </div>
</div>

<div id="content-3b"><p id="p3" runat="server" class="nonetop">paragraph 3</p>
    </div>

Running code like: (assuming your content is in a datatable and that you want the first item (0) from each row)

For each row as Datarow in dt
     p1.InnerHtml += Row.Item(0).ToString
Next

Will loop through your datatable, get the first column from each row and append the text to the paragraph tag.

Update:

For Single Content

If your SQL returns 3 rows, 1 for each area you want to fill simply do:

Assuming dt is the datatable you are filling and that the first column of each row is your content.

p1.InnerHTML = dt.rows(0).Item(0)
p2.InnerHTML = dt.rows(1).Item(0)
p3.InnerHTML = dt.rows(2).Item(0)