multiline label control in the datalist

**bhupinder** · Feb 28 '09, 10:02 AM

Originally posted by Ria12

Hello,kindly request you to plz help me.....
I have label control in the datalist.I want to display the text in this label with line breaks....Plz help me......Thks in advance.

You can do by loop. at the first you have to check length on rowdatabound event then show in label

**Frinavale** · Mar 2 '09, 02:14 PM

HTML <br /> will add a new line.
So when you're adding text to the label, be sure to add a "<br />" when ever you want a new line.

**Ria12** · Mar 3 '09, 05:18 AM

Thks for your replies..
But i want to make it clear , i cannot insert line breaks in HTML coz i am binding the data from database....Can you plz explain me the loop that i have to write in row data bound....?

**alamodgal** · Mar 3 '09, 07:45 AM

Refer this link

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http://forums.asp.net/t/1375350.aspx

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**Ria12** · Mar 3 '09, 08:57 AM

Thks for sending this link ......I got the answer !!!

**ganeshjamdurkar** · Sep 20 '13, 06:05 AM

Try This

<asp:Label ID="CommentLabe l" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Comment") .ToString().Rep lace(Environmen t.NewLine, "<br />") %>' />