Problem formatting dynamic text

[tigerstrikes]

I'm using ASP (VB) to display copy from a Microsoft Access DB. My problem is
that the copy loses it formatting and all runs together. I've tried using PRE
tags, but I often get very long line strings which won't wrap to fit my page
layout even though the text is in a table cell or layer. Putting HTML into the
text while creating the copy won't work since the copy is used to create non
web reports. I know I'm not the first to run into this problem, so if anyone
can tell me what I can do either in the DB, style sheet or server behaviors to
correct, I will be most thankfu

[tigerstrikes]

I'm using ASP (VB) to display copy from a Microsoft Access DB. My problem is
that the copy loses it formatting and all runs together. I've tried using PRE
tags, but I often get very long line strings which won't wrap to fit my page
layout even though the text is in a table cell or layer. Putting HTML into the
text while creating the copy won't work since the copy is used to create non
web reports. I know I'm not the first to run into this problem, so if anyone
can tell me what I can do either in the DB, style sheet or server behaviors to
correct, I will be most thankfu

[tigerstrikes]

I'm using ASP (VB) to display copy from a Microsoft Access DB. My problem is
that the copy loses it formatting and all runs together. I've tried using PRE
tags, but I often get very long line strings which won't wrap to fit my page
layout even though the text is in a table cell or layer. Putting HTML into the
text while creating the copy won't work since the copy is used to create non
web reports. I know I'm not the first to run into this problem, so if anyone
can tell me what I can do either in the DB, style sheet or server behaviors to
correct, I will be most thankfu

[rob :: digitalburn]

Just put the formatting in when you're reading from the database and writing
to the page. So, in the case of wanting linebreaks to happen properly, for
example, just seach the string for linebreaks and replace them with <br />
tags before writing it to the page.

In PHP it looks like:

$content=preg_replace('/(\r\n|\n|\r)/i', '<br />', $content);

but I'm afraid I don't know ASP so I can't help you with the specific code.



tigerstrikes wrote:

> I'm using ASP (VB) to display copy from a Microsoft Access DB. My
> problem is that the copy loses it formatting and all runs together.
> I've tried using PRE tags, but I often get very long line strings
> which won't wrap to fit my page layout even though the text is in a
> table cell or layer. Putting HTML into the text while creating the
> copy won't work since the copy is used to create non web reports.
> I know I'm not the first to run into this problem, so if anyone can
> tell me what I can do either in the DB, style sheet or server
> behaviors to correct, I will be most thankfu