Maintaining user formatting in multiline textbox

In a multiline textbox, how do you maintain paragraph breaks that users may create (like what you see on this forum)?

Are the returns replaced by something else just before being saved to the database? Any assistance would be appreciated!

MichaelWhat I have done with classic ASP is replace all vbCRLF with <BR>. I believe it is the same thing with ASP.NET.

Terri