text rendering problems

Hi - I have some text (type text) values stored in a SQL d-base (2005). The text already has html tags embedded in them. When I bind a value to a textbox for example it escapes the HTML values and does not treat them properly in the browser. How can I tell .NET (or SQL Server, not sure what is escaping the tags) to treat HTML tags in the text like HTML tags. For example if I view source on my aspx page I get the following:

This should be a <b> BOLD </b>

Making it not bold and actually showing the <b> </b> in the browser.

thanks

Paritally it's because controls like the TextBox cant handle HTML tags.

Also, look in the DB.. what's in there? The <..> or <... It may be a matter of how you are saving it

Use this controlhttp://freetextbox.com or use Response.Write(sbuffer);

Hope this helps

Al

the db does not have the < in the table. However, if the textbox control can't handle HTML tags that is probably it. Although I do not know what can't handle means. I would have guessed that the server side control itself does not handle the html tag....it would just spit the value out and the browser would handle it.

as far as the freetext box I will look at that...thanks.

What I mean by "cant handle" is that HTML is ignored.

Things like TextBox dont use HTML, only plain text. <b> is unknown to a TextBox where a Label understands it and interprets it, or rather allows the browser to...