How can I make ASP textboxes be in a horizontal form? I want to know the code that will enable my textboxes to be in a straight line horizontally and not vertically.
Both, ASP and HTML textboxes are inline elements normally. In a new webform with empty template in ASP.NET just move into design tab and place a new Textbox. Click somewhere else, but remain inside the div, so that no control remains selected. Your cursor would be after the Textbox you just created, and the div is showing focus. Pick and drop another Textbox now. If everything is going correct, You will see two textboxes side by side.
No extra coding or css property required.
Here is a post by Microsoft
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/web-forms/overview/getting-started/creating-a-basic-web-forms-page#to-add-controls-to-the-page
In the Microsoft's post above, you can instead of placing a button, place a textbox.
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I am having Asp.Net Textboxes for my contact form.How can I have a default text for my textbox and make the text fade away when the user types something and not on focus , just like SO search box for example.I think it is different from textbox watermark.Any suggestions are welcome , thanks.
This doesn't answer your question, but rectifies part of your question.
just like SO search box for example
The SO Search box uses HTML 5 placeholder attribute, and the functionality you're seeing is Chrome specific.
User agents should present this hint to the user, after having
stripped line breaks from it, when the element's value is the empty
string and/or the control is not focused (e.g. by displaying it inside
a blank unfocused control and hiding it otherwise).
The bold part states that the functionality should remove the placeholder text IF the value is empty and/or it's not focused.
Chrome has decided to implement this as 'when it's not empty, remove the placeholder' but if the textbox is focused and empty, the placeholder remains.
Other browsers (IE/Firefox/Opera) remove the placeholder on focus.
You can use Ajax Toolkit TextBoxWatermark Extender
I suggest using AJAXTOOLKIT for this
specifically TextBoxWatermark
You can achieve using TextBoxWatermark in ajax control toolkit
I have a nested control within a master page. When I explicitly set the focus on the first textbox on this control, the page shifts up to this first textbox. Is there a way to prevent the page from jumping up but still set the focus so the user doesn't have to click into the textbox? I want them to be able to start typing right when the page displays.
I think this is a browser setting, as it works automatic:
http://jsfiddle.net/KjCuM/
You could put a fix in place to then scroll back to the top of the page perhaps, but I think it makes sense for the control to be viewable on the screen if there is focus on it. Otherwise the user will not be able to see what they are submitting.
I'm using asp.net's login control; two textboxes with the labels on the left and a button beneath (the control renders as a table with 3 rows). When the user enters an incorrect login, the page is posted back and the failure text "incorrect login" is displayed by adding a row between the password textbox and the button.
The problem is that when the failure text is displayed, the new row that's inserted shifts the button down slightly.
It looks odd and off. How can I rearrange this so that when the failure text appears it doesn't shift the login button.
Thanks for your suggestions.
Check out the documentation for the Login control.
Assuming there isn't CSS or markup on the page causing the shifting, you should be able to control the style of the failure text via FailureTextStyle property.
Ok, if anyone gets to this page because of a layout problem with the login control, it's actually pretty easy to solve. By default, the control renders as a table and there's nothing you can do to change the layout of the default control because you don't have access to the HTML.
You need to switch the page to design mode and on the control, click "Convert to Template". When you go back to the source page, the HTML becomes accessible and you can see the HTML of the table that contains the various asp controls. Yank the table and put the control inside divs that you control!
I have a web form with a button and a DetailsView control on it. In the button's click event I change the DetailsView control to insert mode so I can add records:
DetailsView1.ChangeMode(DetailsViewMode.Insert)
Everything works fine, except for a checkbox in the DetailsView. When the DetailsView goes into insert mode, the text describing what the checkbox is for disappears. The checkbox itself works fine.
Why is my text disappearing and how can I fix it?
I was able to fix my problem by changing it to a template field. Not sure why it wouldn't work the other way.
Is the text in a Label that is in the item template? If so, you'd need to add it to the Edit Item Template.
Also check that the width of the control is wide enough for all the controls and text. It may be getting hidden due to absolute positioning.
Thanks for the quick reply. The text isn't in a template. It's just a CheckBoxField with the Text property set to "Active":
I've tried widening the field and the DetailsView control, but the text still disappears when I click the button.
I'm creating a login page. I want to create ASP.NET TextBox controls that have "Username" and "Password" as their Text, but as soon as they receive focus, these words should disappear and whatever the user types should appear, just like normal textbox. If the user leaves it blank and tabs to the next textbox, then these words appear again. This will eliminate the need for having separate labels in front of the text boxes. I would appreciate if someone can share their expertise for doing this.
Use the TextBox Watermark Extender that's in Microsoft's AJAX Toolkit.
Google "ASP.NET Watermark textbox". Theres a ton of implemnentations