How to replace "Tab" sign and multiple spaces so that they show correctly in HTML mail bod-CodePudding

I am looking for a way to replace RichTextBox multiple spaces and tabs with html characters so that they are shown correctly in Outlook .HTML mail body.

I tried using that for tabs:

msg = msg.Replace(vbTab, "<td>")

But it does not work. I do now know what to do for multiple spaces - I do not find any <> code to use in this code:

msg = msg.Replace("  ", "<what to put here?>")

All ideas will be greatly appreciated!

CodePudding user response：

The HTML entity for space is   and the entity for tab is &emsp;.

Here is how you would apply it to your RichTextBox:

Dim message = MyRichTextBox.Text.Replace(" ", "&nbsp;").Replace(ControlChars.Tab, "&emsp;")