i made a page for a friend, and made him another page that edits it. It prints out all the html, then you can edit it and save it. The only problem is if he presses enter(to organize and stuff), its adds <BR> tags the page. How can I fix this?

And i cant jsut take out all the <BR>s, because he may type one in.

hard to debug something like that without a link and the code...
maybe you should post both

find where the receiving code does a "replace(request.form("text_area_name")),vbcrlf,"< br>")" and comment it out.

may not be exactly as that but you should get something like it.

Generally, the key solution to remove ALL html tags from an input area is to use a Regex. (I do that in my site).
Here is the sample:
string commentText = Regex.Replace(this.txtComment.Text, @"<(.|\n)*?>", string.Empty).

If you want to preserve the formatting, just use a replace("<br">, "\r\n). This will insert a line feed carriage return.

Originally Posted by Skeddles

i made a page for a friend, and made him another page that edits it. It prints out all the html, then you can edit it and save it. The only problem is if he presses enter(to organize and stuff), its adds <BR> tags the page. How can I fix this?

And i cant jsut take out all the <BR>s, because he may type one in.

If I understand you, you don't want to strip all HTML content out at all; you just want to get rid of these pesky break tags.

In the text area field, each of his line breaks is a carriage return/line freed. I agree with @chrishirst that there is most certainly a part of the processing script that is replacing all of those with a break tag.

Frankly, this is generally the right way to go about things. Maybe your friend is missusing line breaks "to organize and stuff"?