HTML Text Box Control

How It Works

This control was simple enough to put together. Inherit the RichTextControl (so you can still access and format in RTF if need be) and add a couple properties and a function. There are three properties and one function I added: UseSpanTag property, UseStyleTag property, HTML property, and the function GenerateHTML. The two functions are key to this control. The SpanTag property tells the control to format the HTML using html tags. This allows for easier formatting in line. The StyleTag property uses the HTML header to declare a format, then in the body, use the formatting on text. The HTML property does the exact same thing (it calls the GenerateHTML function) and returns the HTML text. Simple enough.

How To Use

This control is very simple to use. You type in text normally (or enter it in programmatically) and then you can either call the function directly, as so:


Private Sub GetHtml()

Dim str As String = Me.HtmlTextBox1.GenerateHTML()

End Sub


or you can read the HTML property. Thats it, you then have an HTML formatted String object.

History

July 15, 2006 ----- Initial Version
July 26, 2006 ----- Version 2 -> Add Tag functionality and fixed a bug...see comments September 07, 2006 ------ Version 2.1 -> Made available to VS 2003