Hi there!

Hopefully this is the right place to post this. If not I apologize.

Here's my problem:

I have an Access database and I would like to include html tags in the memo fields for bulleted lists...bold...italics...etc.

When this information is displayed in the browser all HTML tags embeded in the database memo field are displayed as plain text (e.g. <b>bolded</b>).

Is there any way I can make these tags display correctly in HTML? I'm using ASP to call on this database.

Thanks! Any help is greatly appreciated.

Are you using server.htmlencode during your output or during the storage of the data? If so, that will be converting your tags from <b> to &lt;b&gt;

If you're not, or don't think you are, then you can try to replace the html code as you output it to the browser anyway using

response.write replace(replace(sOutputString,"&lt;","<"),"&gt;",">")

I'm using Server.HTMLEncode.

I've set up a replace and it replaces fine but still shows the <b> tag in my content on the website. I've replaced for &lt; and &gt;...I've changed the code in the database field to [bold] and replaced to <b> in asp...still it shows <b> in my content on the website.

Devil's Angel

Can you post a link to the webpage so we can check the browser source code?

Also, are there any other tags surrounding the output - <pre> for instance - and the output isn't in a textarea is it?

I figured out my problem. When I viewed the source it was still outputting &lt; and &gt; no matter what I changed the code to in my database.

Thanks everyone!
Devil's Angel