复制/粘贴到textarea时保留html标签

Question

I have a need for the user to select text in another (external) web page, and copy/paste it to a html textarea txaQuote (which has a runat server attribute).

I then capture the value as:

string quote = txaQuote.Value;

This however captures only the "text" - any html tags (if for example the source has any <a> tags or spans <p></p> tags) aren't preserved. is there any way to do so?

string quote = txaQuote.InnerHtml 

and

string quote = txaQuote.InnerText

don't work, so I'm guessing the html is actually lost in the copy/paste process itself. Is there a way to preserve it?

Answer 1

So, it seems to me the problem is with the textarea control itself, it's not rich text. By using the menulabs rich text box I can preserve the html.