How can you tell the difference between a text and rich text field with TOM.NET

Question

From within my (2011 SP1) TBB I need to know when a TextField object is rich text or plain text so I can process the contents differently, but I dont see any simple way to find this out. Is this possible without going into the schema XSD?

Answer 1

You could check to see if the ItemField type is a XhtmlField.

if (itemField is XHtmlField)
{
    // Is Rich Text Field
} 
else if (itemField is TextField)
{
    // Is Text Field
}
else
{
    ...
}