HTMLEditor White Space Issue

[rcombs4]

I'm using the HTMLEditor control from the AJAX Control Toolkit. It is being used essentially for creating a post on a blog. It is working very nicely for that. But now I want to insert a VB code snippet into it and have it displayed in the post. I'm using SyntaxHighligher to format the code snippet into a pretty box. My issue is that if I enter the following while in design view it changes the text and my code snippet is not properly displayed when looking at the post.

Typed into design view

private sub test()
   dim foo as string = "test"
   foo = "test2"
end sub

As seen in the actual post

private sub test()<br>
  dim foo as string = "test"<br>
  foo = "test2"<br>
end sub

If i type the same thing but in the code view, it will be displayed properly in the post. But if I go back into edit the post the line breaks are removed and if I save it then all my VB code is on one line.


I was hoping that their was an attribute to preserve white space but it doesn't look like there is one. Does anyone know of a work around?