How to write example text in a TextBox ?

Terry

11y1.4k.NET

Hi,

In many of my fields I want to write some text (sort of help, format, watermark) type of text in my TextBox. For instance, in a date textbox, I want to show the format "dd/mm/yyyy" and when user in on the textbox it disappears & if the textbox is empty then it appears.

I believe their is some simple method to do this, but I can't find out. I tried

[Display(Name = "First Name *", Prompt = "First Name")]

but it doesn't work. Google'd lot for the same but didn't get any answer as I want to. In Login, in Email box, their should be "[email protected]" text.

Can you help me identify what is the key to achieve this functionality.

Thanks

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Pankaj Kumar Choudhary11y ago

Accepted answer

Hello @Terry if you want to add simply text in textbox then you can use place holder
like

<TextBox Name="myTextBox" TextChanged="OnTextBoxTextChanged" placeholder="[email protected]" Width="200">
TextBox>

or you want to add watermark then you can use this link
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb613590%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

Jaipal Reddy11y ago
placeholder = "enter xyz"
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Terry11y ago
Thanks Pankaj for providing example code along. Though initially while adding "placeholder" property in aspx, I couldn't find it. But I added it and it did work. And the text placed in "Placeholder" doesn't even bind up with the model.

Thanks.
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Terry11y ago
Thanks Rahul & Khargesh,

You all have provided the correct answer. As Pankaj has provided with code, so am accepting his reply as answer. Please.

Thanks to all of you.

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Terry11y ago
Thanks Akhil,

Don't want to add so many images.

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Khargesh Rajput11y ago
write Placeholder property in textbox

Placeholder="your watermark text"
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Rahul Prajapat11y ago
Use placeholder for this
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Akhil Garg11y ago
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb613590(v=vs.110).aspx
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