Which validation control to use to control input textbox text length ?
I have a formview to insert record and I want one field to limit to text char length of 50. Which validation control I should use and how to set it ? ThanksThanks in advance for the help. I will try to credit the ones who helped but most important is we really do sincerely thanks to all who have helped. Check this link.. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/Textarea_Length_Validator.aspx Edit: If it is normal single line TextBox, you can set "MaxLength"..Check this code..   <asp:FormView runat="server" ID="formView1" > <...

MS Publisher / Word-like textframe web control... flowing text between text controls
Does anyone know of an ASP.Net web control capable of linking text boxes/frames together similarly to the Publisher & Word textframe objects (via the NextLinkedTextFrame property in Publisher or the TextFrame.Next property in Word)? The goal is to have text flow from one textbox into another. Thx.....

preserving the layout of text input via text input control
Ok what I want to do is, when using the text input control all cr, lf, crlf and spaces are preserved when the content is input in a db and that the information/layout is preserved when viewing it in a text input filed or grid control.any ideas   jim When you input text via a multiline textbox and insert it into a database your specified line breaks will be maintained. When retrieving the record, you will need to do a replace on the string in order to interpret these line breaks in your html:myField.Replace("\n", "<br />")Does this answer your q...

length or trim ? how can i get textbox.text as text that publichouse to textbox.text as text that public ?
hello friends length or trim ? how can i get textbox.text as text that publichouse to textbox.text as text that public ? second example is ..... textbox1.text is greenhouse.. i want to get green from textbox.text cheer Mark as me if my question or my answer can be helpful for you :) Hi,you can always perform a Trim to a retrieved string to delete the leading and trailing space characters. For your second example where you want to gt a part of the retrieved string you can use the SubString method of the String class.Grz, Kris. Read my blog. Handy Firefox plugins for web developers.Workar...

Changing the text of an input (text) control
Hi everyone, please answer the following: I have a html input control as follows  <input id="newSearch_keywords" type="text" class="text" value="<%=JobsSearchBusinessObject.CurrentKeywords %>" name="newSearch_keywords""/>    When the page loads I need to look at the text of this input field and remove any * chars that are in the text. Thanks for your help <input id="newSearch_keywords" type="text" class="text" value="<%=JobsSearchBusinessObject.CurrentKeywords.Re...

Web Control with <abc:Control>TEXT HERE</abc:Control>
I'm trying to create a custom web control and support putting stuff in the middle - between the openning and closing tags:  <abc:Control>TEXT HERE</abc:Control> I would like to be able to put both text and other web controls between the tags. How do I do this? hi, why not the normal web user control? It also works fine. Maybe it is hard to create a control with the openning and closing tags...

chinese character in rich text control and text control
I have a chinese character in either rich text control or text control. The character is look fine if it is a small size (10, 12), however when the font size is changed bigger (36 or 72), the character is out of shape(many dot, not smooth). Is anyone has any idea to print a bigger chinese character from pb7.03. ...

Text does not wrap correctly in rich text control
Hi, I'm having this problem: 'Text does not wrap correctly in rich text control'. I'm using PB10.5.1. I've done some research on the Web and tried: set the following variable in the pb.ini file: [RichText] PageSizeAsControlSize=1 Should I install PB10.5.2? Does it resolve the problem? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. Joan A bit more description about the problem. I have a rich text control in my app. I have tried to set property to 'Wordwrap, which dosen't work. I have tried to set the following variable in the pb.ini file: ...

How to populate other text controls by losing focus of one text control
 Hi All,Iam new to ASP.net. Here is a small illustration about my prob. I have 3 text controls in a page i.e which represents zip,city,state. I want to populate city and state after entering zipcode into zip text control i.e something like focus lost event on zip text control. Any solution regarding this thanks and regards,vijaycanaan How about OnTextChange: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa710190(VS.71).aspx EricPascarello.com | Twitter epascarello | LinkedIn Hi vijaycanaan We can capture the following event when TextBox  lost focus: On Server-Side:We...

control text in a text box inside a Form view
I want to get text from a querystring into a text box that is prt of a form view. I have tried writing code in the page load that changes the text value inside that text box but i get the error that the texbox name is not in the current context. My question is how to call a textbox (or any other control) inside a form view? You can use the FormView's OnDataBound event to access the textbox on your formview: OnDataBound="FormView1_OnDataBound" Protected Sub FormView1_OnDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)        If FormView1.Curren...

Controlling web control instances on Web Form
I have created a composite control, extending functionality of the Hidden Control. However, I would like to prevent the user from adding this control to the page multiple times. I only want one instance of the control on the Web Form. What setting in my project to I adjust to enable this functionality? I can not find it in any of the books that I have referenced. Is this a setting or is this code that has to be added to the inheriting class. Looks like there is no standard apporach. But I'd consider using static field to count number of created objects and throw exception if second object ...

Setting the height of a Text Input Control on a User Defined Control
I have a user defined control. I am using absolute positioning. I am setting the height and width of a text input using an embedded style. It look fine in the user control window but when I insert the user control onto a page, the heigth of the text control is too large. I cannot seem to control the height on the page I place the user control onto. Any help?Virtually yoursWilliam Main Hi, I think it is better to create the user control to be created as  position = Static to get more layout control of the web user control when used in other pages. For more layout control on all ...

Text Formating in a .Net Server Textbox Control
I have a webform with a textbox that I use for inserting a phone number. I would like to mask the text box so that when the user inserts the phone number will look like this (123)555-5555 I need to send the phone number as a param to a web service that require that format. to be able to return a query result. I'm usin VS 2005 Does any of the VS .NET server controls have any type of masking capabilities.?   Tia Charles  Charles UrbinaSolucion Software Corp. None of the standard Web Server Controls offer this "masking" feature -- something akin to Windows TextBox control.&...

Enabling button after text changed on text box from form view control
I'm using form view to display some text box that contains user's personal info. There are "save" buttons for each text box which are disable as default. I want to enable them when text is changed on the the text box. I don't know how to write the the JavaScript function to do this task and i also don't know how to call the function from the the textbox control (onchange or ontextchange?). Here is the formview code: <asp:FormView ID="FormView1" runat="server" DataSourceID ="personalSQL"> <ItemTemplate > <ta...