I've created a page that e-mails the content of a form via CDONTS. I have a few textarea fields on it. Is there a way for me to retain the formatting of the textarea field in the e-mail message? For example, if a user writes a few sentences and uses hard returns to separate the lines, can I get the data to appear in the e-mail message the same way? Right now, the data appears in one long string.

Hi Robert

I'm assuming you're trying to send the email as HTML or at least view the email in html. You need to do a find/replace on your string something like:

Replace(myString,vbcrlf,"<br>"

or if you need to use this as a function, something like:

Function FormatText(strInputText)

dim i
dim v
dim strOutput
dim strText

strText = strInputText

strOutput = ""

for i = 1 to len(strText)
v=mid(strText,i,1)
if v=chr(13) then
strOutput=strOutput & "<br>"
else
strOutput=strOutput & v
end if
next

FormatText = strOutput
End Function

And call the function like so:

FormatText(myString)

Digga

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