Asp.net multiline textbox not recognising carriage returns

[robertx]

I have an ASP.NET multiline textbox. I can hit return to create carriage returns on the screen but the text property of the textbox is ignoring the carriage returns and simply concatenating the lines without even a space in between. I am writing this text property to a database and I want to be able to retrieve the text exactly as it was typed with carriage returns included.

[KGComputers]

I have this simple application which works.

aspx code:

  
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" TextMode="MultiLine"></asp:TextBox>

c# code.

protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //save valueTextbox with carriage return to database
            string valueTextbox = Regex.Replace(this.TextBox1.Text, @"\r\n", "</br>");
            //save database code blah blah blah....

            //retrieve from database
            string valueDB = dr["dummytext"].ToString(); //datarow object
            Response.Write(valueDB);
        }

It renders the text with breaks to the browser.

Greg

[robertx]

When I looked both in the Visual Studio designer and in the database, the carriage returns weren't visible. It just appeared as a single concatenated string. Carriage returns used to appear as a square box. However, when I copied and pasted the text into notepad, the text was on separate lines so the carriage returns are there.