Is Server.HtmlDecode the right tool?

Question

User-911157248 posted

This stems from a recent similiar issue: I have since add edit capabilities.

My access db is made up of imported records from recipes. In the memo fields are paragraphs users have typed replete with ingredients listed in succession (1 per line) then a normal paragraph follows. When in editmode(multi line textbox), suddenly in each line ends with <br>. How to fix this? I want to preserve the line breaks od course.

 

 

Answer 1

User-1199946673 posted

That's because you're doing things your way... In the other post, I adviced, when showing the content of the multiline textbox, to replace the line breaks with a <br> tag, However, you decided to do the replacement before storing the input into the database, which off course results in what you're facing now. So read again what I wrote.

Another, perhaps better option is to use a HTML Editor like FreeTextBox 

Answer 2

User-911157248 posted

I think I see what you mean. The other issue is whether the memo field should be stored as rich text or plain? This seems to affect it.