If you have a GridView that uses BoundFields but does not display line breaks
or a lot of spaces quite right here is a way to get around that. This example
uses a GridView with one BoundField that uses a DataField of comments. The
comments are stored in a database and entered from another page which displays
the comments properly in a textbox with all the spaces and line breaks you
intended. The trick to get a BoundField to show those items is to take the item
and replace the \r\n with a <br /> and the spaces with  . Also you
need to set the HtmlEncode property of the BoundField to false.
This example shows the data being returned to a DataView which is the
DataSource for the GridView.
The GridView:
<asp:GridView ID="gvComments" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="false"
>
<Columns>
<asp:BoundField DataField="comments"
HtmlEncode="false" />
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>
The code (assumes the DataView dv is already filled):
int i = 0;
foreach (DataRow dr in dv.Table.Rows)
{
string comment
= dr.Field<string>(6);
comment = comment.Replace(" ",
" ");
comment = comment.Replace("\r\n", "<br />");
dv.Table.Rows[i][6] = comment;
i++;
}
Tags: ASP.Net, CSharp