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How To Add A New Line in a C# or Visual Basic TextBox

Published 2 years, 9 months ago in C#

If you're building a Windows Form Application, for example with C# or Visual Basic, then you may need to add a new line character, for example in a multiline TextBox. You do this using Enviroment.NewLine to insert the line break as follows:

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CODE:

textBox1.Text="First Line" + Environment.NewLine + "Second Line";

My preferred use is with the += operator in C#:

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CODE:

textBox1.Text = "Line One";
textBox1.Text += Environment.NewLine;
textBox1.Text += "Line Two";

This way, you can add extra lines of output to the TextBox as you require it.

References: Environment.NewLine on MSDN

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9 Responses to “How To Add A New Line in a C# or Visual Basic TextBox”

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1 Namadev Oct 12th, 2006 at 7:44 am

Hey,

Thats a good one …
2 Dan Dec 3rd, 2006 at 9:45 pm

Excellent - just what I was looking for! Thanks
3 OttoDisc Jan 19th, 2007 at 11:17 am

Fast and clean.
Many thanks!
4 Andrew Jan 28th, 2007 at 10:15 pm

Thx!! I really needed this! great
5 praKash Mar 14th, 2007 at 9:24 pm

Thata was simple but hard to find
6 marcexx66 Mar 29th, 2007 at 11:11 pm

Thnxs , just what I need!
7 arasu Jun 25th, 2007 at 2:23 am

Really it is excellent.Bez i was thinking for more hours but easily i found this!
8 lmnd Jul 9th, 2007 at 10:32 am

Yeahh. But not working un vb 6
9 JDuarte Aug 7th, 2007 at 6:15 am

easier even is just vbNewLine in Visual Basic

textBox1.Text=”First Line” vbNewLine “Second Line”