In the above example, the box @ the top is the textbox and at the bottom is a label which is enclosed in a panel (with border for illustration).
The aspx is as follows:
The code behind is as follows:
<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="RichText.aspx.vb" Inherits="RichText" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title>RichText Page testing</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:TextBox ID="txtInput" runat="server" Rows="7" TextMode="MultiLine"></asp:TextBox>
<br />
<br />
<asp:Button ID="btnSubmit" runat="server" Text="Submit" />
<br />
<hr />
<br />
<asp:Panel ID="Panel1" runat="server" BorderStyle="Inset" Width="500px">
<asp:Label ID="lblMsg" runat="server"></asp:Label>
</asp:Panel>
<br />
</form>
</body>
</html>
Partial Class RichText
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
Protected Sub btnSubmit_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSubmit.Click
Dim tmpStr As String
tmpStr = Replace(txtInput.Text, vbNewLine, "
")
lblMsg.Text = Replace(tmpStr, " ", " ")
End Sub
End Class
As shown above, we just need to detect the newline and replace it with <br> which is a new line in html. The same goes for spaces.
Alternatives
However, if you need to include bold, underline etc. You can probably build your own control or purchase a commercial control. There also a GPL solution available that supports multiple platform - call FCKeditor. This appears more promising but requires some setup. There also other - just google "richtext html editor" and you will find a lot of other alternatives.
There is also an article I found that does some of this here.
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