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noel
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Added: March/17/2005 at 10:25pm | IP Logged Quote noel
Hello,
     Where I work, we have a online form that an asp script converts to an email. The problem with this script is that when you open an email that came from this script, the text appears as one long string, no line breaks.  If you click "view source", the proper format is seen, with line breaks where they should be. A sample of how the text string is put together follows.

strBody = strBody & "First Name: " & Request.Form("firstname") & vbCrLf

I have been told that the vbCrLf is what is making the line breaks in the "view source". I would like to fix this so I don't have to "view source" each email. I would like to add something like "\n" to get the proper line breaks  when viewing the message normally.  Would it be as easy as adding  "\n" to  the strBody staements, like:

 strBody = strBody & "First Name: " & Request.Form("firstname") &  \n

Or do I need to use something else?

Thank you
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Added: March/18/2005 at 12:50pm | IP Logged Quote cwilliams

you're most likely sending the emails in html format so the vbCrlf only  adds line breaks when you view the html source as you said

so you need to do something like this

strBody = strBody & "First Name: " & Request.Form("firstname") & vbCrLf & "<br>"

Basically an html line break is inserted (not a javascipt /n which is totally not going to work)

I'd leave the vbCrlf line breaks there so the source still is readable but they can go if you dont want them there

Here is some additional info on various string constants in vbscript

Constant Value Description
vbCr Chr(13) Carriage return
vbCrLf Chr(13) & Chr(10) Carriage return–linefeed combination
vbFormFeed Chr(10) Form feed; not useful in Microsoft Windows
vbLf Chr(10) Line feed
vbNewLine Chr(13) & Chr(10) or Chr(10) Platform-specific newline character; whatever is appropriate for the platform
vbNullChar Chr(0) Character having the value 0
vbNullString String having value 0 Not the same a zero-length string (""); used for calling external procedures
vbTab Chr(9) Horizontal tab
vbVerticalTab Chr(11) Vertical tab; not useful in Microsoft Windows
 

 



Edited by cwilliams on March/18/2005 at 6:22pm

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