Literal Display Style Options

The Literal display style displays a database field as straight text.

Literal display style options.

 

Options

Description

Null value text

Specifies the text to be displayed or inserted into the database if the underlying database field has a “null” value (no value).

HTML encode white space

Respects the white space, carriage return and line feed characters in the HTML.  White space is preserved.  For example, if you have 10 contiguous spaces, 10 spaces will be output in the field.

Save field value to database

Sets the "SaveData=True" pass-through attribute value so that any automatically initialized value is saved to the database.  (Values in Labels and Literals are not automatically saved to the database, unlike display styles normally used for data input, such as text boxes and list boxes).

You can initialize field values using the Set Initial Value To properties.  See FieldValue Initial Value Properties for details.

See Also

FieldValue Tag