I needed to set the padding for text box controls in my ASP.NET web forms application because the were rendering inconsistently with Dropdownlist controls on the browser. The Dropdownlists had some padding between the text and the border and the Textboxes did not have any.
Visual Studio does not provide a direct padding property for controls so trying to set/change padding for controls like Textboxes and Dropdownlists can be very frustrating. After a lot of searching without any getting any useful solutions i was able to do it. See Answer below.
I strongly recommended you learn some CSS, so that you would not depend solely on the web controls provided by visual studio. As in your case, just put "cssclass='somestyle'" into your textbox control and that is:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
<style>
.padding {
padding:.5em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtDemo" CssClass="padding"></asp:TextBox>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
The answer lies in the CssClass Attribute of the control which go like Auto-Style1, Auto-Style2, etc.
If you have Dreamweaver installed you can open your .aspx web-form and select and edit the the CssClass Rules. (Select the Css tab on the properties tab below the page in Dreamweaver) Here you can set padding Rule (See 'Box option' in the Css Rule Definions - Uncheck 'Same for all' to set different Left, Top, Bottom, Right padding values) Save and the go back to Visual studio load the saved page and set that CssClass property of the control to the edited CssClass. (Do not set the CssClass for the control in Dreamweaver - you are likely to get errors when you run your application) I only edited the padding rule so i do not know the effect of editing other CssClass rules.
It Worked! I have 5px padding for my Textboxes and they are now consistent with Dropdownlist padding (Chrome browser). They look lovely!
Hope this helps Someone.
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my intension is to have a textbox (with database value) to be placed inside the repeater's header division for allignment purpose.i made border style to none.
Thanks
just create one css and assign that css to textbox.
<style>
.txtclass{cursor:pointer;}
</style>
<asp:TextBox ID="txt" CssClass="txtclass" runat="server" />
That's it.
Hope it helps you.
EDIT :
<style>
.txtclass input[disabled="disabled"] {
// your color style
}
</style>
Try this.
i have a fieldset in my asp.net website to make a groupbox look alike.. but its not coming.
here's what i am doing :
<fieldset id="fl1" runat="server">
<legend>My Group</legend>
</fieldset>
only My Group is coming the border isn't coming ... i also used panel but same issue...
i am using ajax toolkit and update panel in this page ...
what should i do?
The fieldset is visible, it is just the border that isn't. Therefore you, presumably, have a style sheet that is removing the border.
Edit the style sheet so either it doesn't remove the border in the first place, or it adds one in explicitly.
You don't have anything in the fieldset so it can't put a border around nothing.
<fieldset id="fl1" runat="server">
<legend>My Group</legend>
<!-- Put anything you want to be in the fieldset here. -->
</fieldset>
Asp.net core pages do not seems to support all kind of fieldset elements.
It supports but now visible in browsers.
You may use, fieldset like this , As solid reference is supported.
<fieldset style="border:0.5px solid">
=>>code goes here
Hi i have a textbox which i am using as a counter to show how many characters are still allowed in another textbox. I have made it read only and its background transparent so that you cant tell it is a select box. The only problem is you can still click on it or tab to it. Is there a way to do this so it appears just like normal text and people cant click on it or tab to it?
If this is an Asp.Net Web Control set it's Enabled property to false
<asp:TextBox Enabled="false" />
If it is HTML you can do this:
<input type="text" disabled />
Just replace the input element with a span element or some other non-input element. This requires a trivial change to your JavaScript; you would assign to the innerHTML property of the element rather than value. Then the content will appear as normal text, and you can style it as desired.
you need some style with css and some trick with Jquery.
CSS
.readonly{
border:none;
background:#aaa;
}
Jquery
$(".readonly").focus(function(){
$(this).blur();
});
now just add class="readonly" to your textbox.
<asp:TextBox cssClass="readonly" />
check demo here .
work on C# asp.net vs 05. I have a requirment, I have to fill text box with some data on gridview , which is coming from database and make it read-only
After that user can not enter any text on gridview template field. If I set textbox Enabled=false, then i lose text color, but i want to show text color. Just textbox to not be editable. I just want users to not be able to write anything in my textbox.
Isn't there a readonly property for the text box.
If then you can use
ReadOnly="true"
for the text box.
If you can use a label then I would prefer that one.
For wrapping contents inside a label you can use
word-wrap
word-wrap: break-word
Inside the properties choose your column field and in the properties.
Under Styles section
You can give a CssClass to the column.
If you specify CssClass as 'TextStyle'
the css looks like this
.TextStyle
{
color: #a9a9a9
}
In the color attribute give either the color name like 'red' or the hexcode like '#000000' for the text.
Enabled="false"
I'd use CSS to make a label look like a textbox.
Why does everyone insist on using an asp:label for this sort of thing? Just because it renders a <span> if you don't supply an AssociatedControlId?
You should look at using an asp:Panel or possibly an asp:Literal or asp:PlaceHolder for this as they will give you greater control over the output, and cleaner markup.
Panel would be better, as this will render the contents in a <div> rather than the PlaceHolder or Literal which won't add any extra markup.
The content you are putting in here is a semantic division, and so should really be marked up as such, and by default, <div>s are treated as a block display type, rather than as inline (<span>).
Here's a quick proof of concept I just knocked up.
<head runat="server">
<style>
.readTest
{
border: none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:TextBox runat="server" Text="Do something" ReadOnly="true"
ID="txtOne" CssClass="readTest"></asp:TextBox>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Personally I would use a label, though you could write a custom control that renders a textbox or a label, depending on the state your app is in.
I'd prefer to write the text directly to the cell using a literal or String() output rather than using a control. It's a bit cleaner and will help minimize the amount of ViewState being written. Either that, or turn off ViewState for those controls being added.
Specify your CSS for the TextBox in the row created event of the GridView.
I have an ASP:Label control on my page, and I would like to give it some CSS formatting. I know I could give it a CssClass name, however, it seems wrong because I want to give it a specific positioning therefore I'm looking for something more similar to the regular "id" attribute of html elements.
The ID of the label is the one used by the ASP, but in the actual html produced, I get a different ID.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
The next version of ASP.Net will make it easier to specify an exact clientID for the control. At the moment, you have several options to work around this issue:
Inline Styles
<asp:Label runat="server" ID="MyLabel" style="..." />
CssClass
Just use a css class, as you mentioned in your quesiton. Nothing stops you from making those unique if you have to.
Write a handler to serve your style sheet
When you write your style sheet, leave placeholder in the file for client IDs. Then use an http handler to substitute in the actual rendered IDs on each request. This isn't exactly simple because the style sheet request is separate from the html page request, but it is certainly possible and so worth mentioning.
Use a container
Since a label renders as a span tag, if that span is unique within a specific naming container you can select it that way:
<div id="MyContainer"><asp:Label ID="MyLable" runat="server" /></div>
And in your style sheet:
#MyContainer span { /*...*/ }
Use a container + a class
If the container is not specific enough, you can use the class just to narrow it down within that container:
<div id="MyContainer"><asp:Label ID="MyLable" runat="server" CssClass="MyClass"/></div>
and in your style sheet:
#MyContainer span.MyClass { /*...*/ }
ASP.net essentially breaks the CSS ID selector. To get around this sometimes I will place this id in the CssClass attribute.
<style type="text/css">
input.first-name { /* style me */ }
</style>
<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="firstName" CssClass="first-name" />
You can also add multiple class names in the CssClass attribute
<style type="text/css">
input.first-name { /* style me */ }
input.text-input { /* because ie 6 won't do input[type=text] */ }
</style>
<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="firstName" CssClass="first-name text-input" />
I try as much as possible to not use inline style or to use the additional styling attributes provided by the controls.
Your only options are to use CssClass or inline styles. As ASP.NET auto-generates the ID's of server side controls you should never try to second guess what these will be. It can be a major pain getting Webforms to work with elegant CSS layouts.
ASP.NET 4.0 will introduce the ClientID property that should make it easier to work with ID attributes in the future.
I think you can do something like:
<asp:Label ID+"lblID" style=" [whatever style you want goes in here "] runat="server />
Remember when the control gets rendered, it gets rendered as with the ctrl.etc....
Or if you are doing positioning, can't you wrap the label in a <div>
Yeah - a major headache with web forms - the id is made up of all the contentsections, panels etc that the label (or other control) sits within.
your best bet really is to add a CssClass to the control.