Programmatically add lines of text to a Rich Text Box field on an InfoPath form using C# code

by S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton

Use C# code to add DIV elements to apply line-breaks between lines of text in a rich text box field on an InfoPath form.

Problem

You have a Rich Text Box control on an InfoPath form template and you would like to programmatically add lines of text to the Rich Text Box including line-breaks, that is, you want each line of text to appear on a separate line.

Solution

Use <div> elements to apply line-breaks between lines of text in a Rich Text Box on an InfoPath form.

Before You Begin

You should be able to do the following:

Discussion

If you have a Rich Text Box control named rtfField on an InfoPath form template, you can put the following C# code in the Clicked event handler of a Button control to programmatically add two lines of text to the Rich Text Box field on the InfoPath form:


			  XPathNavigator nav = MainDataSource.CreateNavigator();

XPathNavigator rtfNav = nav.SelectSingleNode("//my:rtfField", NamespaceManager);

using (XmlWriter rtfWriter = rtfNav.AppendChild())

{

  rtfWriter.WriteStartElement("div", "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml");

  rtfWriter.WriteString("Line 1");

  rtfWriter.WriteEndElement();

  rtfWriter.WriteStartElement("div", "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml");

  rtfWriter.WriteString("Line 2");

  rtfWriter.WriteEndElement();

  rtfWriter.Close();

}

Or you can use the following C# code, which uses XmlDocument objects to add elements to rtfField.


XPathNavigator nav = MainDataSource.CreateNavigator();

XPathNavigator rtfNav = nav.SelectSingleNode("//my:rtfField", NamespaceManager);

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

XmlElement elm = doc.CreateElement("div", "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml");

elm.InnerText = "Line 1";

doc.AppendChild(elm);

rtfNav.AppendChild(doc.DocumentElement.CreateNavigator());

doc = new XmlDocument();

elm = doc.CreateElement("div", "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml");

elm.InnerText = "Line 2";

doc.AppendChild(elm);

rtfNav.AppendChild(doc.DocumentElement.CreateNavigator());

Now when you click the button, the text lines will be added with a line-break between them.

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