Creating Forum - Struggling with Text Box Size

[minckle]

Hi, im trying to create my own forum site using .Net
When a user creates a new post the text gets saved in a database
The 1 thing that im struggling on is displaying that post on the web. The obvious way would be to show the text within an asp:textbox, but because i dont know the length on the text i dont know how big to create the text box. If i just place the text into a table it loses all the formating - So what do i do??
Do i have to save the text in the database with html tags around it?? if so, how do i do it??

[ginzotech]

Hmmm.....

You don't have to use TextBox. Maybe you can just use a div control. Look on the ToolBox of Visual Studio under Html. You can use the div control and possibly set the text in the InnerHtml property.

Let me know if this doesn't work.

John Ginzo
GinzoTech Solutions
http://www.GinzoTechSolutions.com

[QuikFrozen]

Here's what you need:

<textarea name="text" cols="60" rows="8"></textarea>

Well, its obvious what "cols" and "rows" mean, it's more an HTML question than a .Net question, but well hope it helps.