jkinney768

# November 8, 2012 at 11:22 am

Hello,

Does anyone know how to preserve line breaks in a text area? I’m having a problem in our custom CMS where when you type something in a text area in the back end, the line breaks don’t show up on the front end. So it’ll look like this in the back end:

text area

text area

text area

But will come out like this on the front end:

text area text area text area.

I know it’s possible since this forum is obviously doing it, but I just have no clue how. Does anyone have an idea?

Paulie_D

# November 8, 2012 at 11:33 am

It’s your custom CMS. How do you have your text fields set up?

BTW, I had to edit your OP to get the original vertical ‘text areas’ to show properly so perhaps this forum isn’t the best example.

jkinney768

# November 8, 2012 at 12:14 pm

Ah, I guess maybe it isn’t. I just know it is set up using ASP.net. Our programmer only works on a limited basis so we’ve been trying to solve anything we can on our own. Maybe this is something that is beyond me that will need programming expertise. I was hoping there may be a simple solution.

This is the code I pulled from the CMS that calls the text box

Paulie_D

# November 8, 2012 at 12:18 pm

http://forums.asp.net/t/1572417.aspx/1

Argeaux

# November 8, 2012 at 12:21 pm

Where you output the string, something like:

myString.Replace(“rn”, “
“);

Argeaux

# November 8, 2012 at 12:22 pm

damnit… in the seconds parameter: < br > < br>

jkinney768

# November 8, 2012 at 12:22 pm

Awesome. Hopefully this bit of code they provide works within the asp tags. Thanks!