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Add Line Breaks to a Label Control

Problem

You want to insert line breaks in the text of a Web control such as the Label control.

Solution

Add HTML markup to the string. For example, you can use <p> to denote paragraphs or <br> to divide a line.

Discussion

You can’t use the carriage return character (or the System.Environment.Newline constant) to insert a line break in the text of a Web control. Instead, you must use HTML tags. For example, the following code snippet creates three lines of text:

lblMessage.Text = "This is line one.<br>"
lblMessage.Text &= "This is line two.<br>"
lblMessage.Text &= "This is line three."

Figure 15-4 shows the use of multiple lines in a Web control.

Figure 15-4. Multiple lines in a label.