Web browser control display plain text mail

Question

I have a c# app which is supposed to display email. the email may be HTML or plain text but i am using web browser control in both cases. the problem is web browser control is ignoring all the escape characters of plain text and the mail appear as a single line.

the work around i am using is to replace escape character "\n" or "\r" to <br>. is there any other good way to do this.

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can surround the text with <pre> and </pre> (stands for "preformatted") tag. See here: HTML pre Tag

Answer 2

I think, the only way is the replacing "\r\n" for <br/>. Use the StringBuilder class for it.

var htmlText = new StringBuilder(text);
htmlText.Replace("\r\n", "\n")
        .Replace("\r", "\n")
        .Replace("\n", "<br/>");
webBrowser.DocumentText = htmlText.ToString();