combine and manipulate multiple fields from DB record, into a new textbox???

hi dudes and dudettes,

i'm just starting out with database stuff. i've got my databse table (using the descriptive method so the output appears in textboxes) and a binding navigator added to a form and i want to combine about four fields only from my current record into a new textbox to combine them with some autogenerated html tags.

the idea with the app is to have the current record in the database in view on the left of my form with all fields on show.

To my right of the form is a big multi-line textbox where i want the app to grab four of the available fields from the left/or database and automatically insert breakline tags and boldtype text tags around to label and format some of the fields to automatically generate html formatted descriptions that can be copied and pasted easily into an ecommerce site's catalog descriptions

i've been scrabbling around but not sure how to even start this, or if i'm searching for the right terms even, and have considered a few ways to go about this:-

should i try to grab the required binded textbox contents as strings and re-write these to my new textbox combined with new strings for my html tag... or

somehow have multiple fields from a record bound to my new text-box inserting my required html-tag strings in the appropriate places

i'm hoping someone nice and helpful, and i know you're out there can steer me towards some resources to look up to understand how to go about this previously i've hacked together photoshop scripting using vb.net so have some experience of strings and loops and making basic decisions - but i just don't know what to look-up to solve this problem.

cheers me lovelies, squeak ya later