I am searching for a way to convert an email address once entered in a textfield as an object like shown in this image on MS office outlook ;
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the point is that now in outlook as my cursor is positioned just after "user2#gmail.com" if I click backspace I will delete the entire email address, as if it was one object and not simple text entered.
I suppose this is possible in flex? All ideas and suggestions are more than welcome.
IT is possible; but you'll probably have to create a component for doing so.
I believe Hillel Coren's AutoComplete component supports "multiple select" functionality in this manner. Just check out the demo. I'm not sure of the customization for that, though.
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Just as the title says.
I cant find ANYTHING for this particular usecase Online.
This is in context of a website aiming to be AA WCAG 2.0 conform.
I have non-focussable text alongside focussable textinputs inside of a single view.
I can TAB through the focussable textinputs, but I cant read out the textfields inbetween. When I press "arrow down" while having the focus on the textinput I get "empty field" from NVDA. Most shortcuts also unfortunately produce text in the textinputfield instead of executing the associated behavior in NVDA.
Is there any way have the keystrokes being recognized as commands instead of input for the textfield? Is there any keyboard shortcut telling NVDA to behave like this?
Under the hood, NVDA auto switches to Forms mode, so what you're getting is the correct behaviour. if that text is related to the field, then you should use aria-describedby="[id of text]", on the form element.
I wouldn't be looking at anything that changes the default behaviour of how it works, as this will undoubtedly cause issues, for end users.
Could you not put that text in a tooltip, that is only shown when a user tabs to an interactive icon, next to the input (using the aria-describedby attribute too)?
I am making a system to input some paperwork into a digital database.
In said database there are preset Clients, but there are quite a few of them (100+).
That said, when the user has to select a Client, I want to make it as swiftly as possible, and thought of having him start typing the client name, and have a sort of "dropdown" come out of the textbox with a _startsWith filter, and use directional arrows+enter to select. Similar to history on browsers?
Is there anyway to implement such a thing on a Textbox?
Right now I have am filtering a Table with the textbox, and have the user click on the tableRow to select the Client.
Any other ideas are welcome too.
Thank you for reading!
The widget Suggest Box is exactly what you're looking for. See link for documentation.
ALL,
If I have a QTextEdit with the bunch of text and will want to insert a hyperlink in this text somewhere, will I get a handling of this hyperlink for free or I will have to write some additional code to handle the hyperlink hovering/clicking?
TIA!
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What I mean to ask was - whether it is possible QTextEdit to recognize the hyperlink after typing www.google.com and pressing either Space Bar or Enter key, so that it becomes rendered appropriately.
I don't want my user to type < a href=.....
Thank you and sorry for the confusion.
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I have an ASPxTextBox with a NullText. It is used for a user name. Some users are copying their user name from the registration email into this text box. When they do it via right click and the context menu and go back to their email client to copy the password, the text box gets emptied, i. e. NullText is displayed.
I can reproduce this. However, when using Ctrl+V to paste the user name, it is persistent.
It seems to me that the ASPxTextBox is looking for a keydown event or something similar to decide if the text has changed.
How can I make the text persistent in all cases?
It seems that this behavior is a side effect of the browser/form AutoComplete feature.
Can you try to reproduce this issue with a regular with the placeholder attribute (HTML5)?
If the behavior is the same, see this thread.
I am working around this issue with this jquery plugin:
https://github.com/mathiasbynens/jquery-placeholder
I have to hide the length of the password being entered during login of my asp.net web application. I know the asp.net textbox server control has the textmode of password but I can't even show the that. Any suggestions on how to hide the user input?
<input type="password" name="password" style="color:White;"/>
seems close to your requirement but some browsers highlight input fields with yellow when you are in them. Setting the font size to 1px is another trick you could try.
But easiest might be to instead use z-index to put an image or colored DIV on top of the password field. Maybe an animated gif with a line of * characters that grows and shrinks randomly would be best - would totally confuse onlookers! :-)
How the user even knows the field is selected is another issue you'll have, maybe some extra javascript to detect and tell them that.
If you must (which I agree with #Ando that you shouldn't due to UI issues), I would use javascript (onkeydown) to copy each character to a hidden input field, and remove the key entered in the box.
This would allow you to retrieve the password on postback, while keeping the input field empty for the user.
Of course, if the user presses arrow keys, delete or backspace, you would have to decide how to handle that.
Hiding the length of the input seems like a really really bad UI idea from the users perspective, and you should argue that the specification should be changed.
While, I also agree with everyone else that is a bad idea I understand that some times you have to do things you disagree with.
I would have suggested what Mikael did but he already did it. :)
To recap:
I would use javascript (onkeydown) to
copy each character to a hidden input
field, and remove the key entered in
the box.
This would allow you to retrieve the
password on postback, while keeping
the input field empty for the user.
Of course, if the user presses arrow
keys, delete or backspace, you would
have to decide how to handle that.
You've said:
My issue with using Javascript and
storing in a hidden field is the user
viewing the source of the page and
seeing it.
I'm pretty sure that viewing the source should only show you what was originally downloaded not what the user has entered. However, there are tools (i.e. firefox addons) that can do this. You could store the value in a javascript varible and only put the password in the hidden field when it is posted or use some sore of ajax request to authenticate. However, With the right addons someone could find this as well.
If the issue is someone looking over the shoulder of the person logging in then these concerns (i.e. viewing source) won't matter unless the person who is logging in decides to view the source and show the person in which case it would just be easier for him to tell the other person his password.
Agreeing that its not the best idea...
1) When you start typing, on each key press, restrict a specific character from being entred as part of a password (eg pipe) then when the user types, add a ramdom number of pipes (eg between 0 and 4 pipes) then just remove these server-side?
2) Add these to a hidden field...if the user does a View_Source, they will only see the original value of the field, ie will be empty...just remember to clear the value if you need to depending on how its rendered (asp.net webform hidden field control) etc
3) Have 2 password boxes that need 2 passwords (just as bad an idea)
I confirmed the requirement with a security officer and apparently I miss read the requirement. However, I have seen Windows based applicatiosn perform this. The cursor moves on each key stroke but no star, asterik or bar is used. Thanks to everyone for theie suggestions and comments.