First of all, thanks for answers! 9 total answers. Thank you. Bad news: all of the answers had some quirks or didn’t work quite right (or at all). I’ve added a comment to each of your posts. Good news: I’ve found a way to make it work. This solution is pretty straightforward and seems to … Read more
For XHTML, <input type=”text” disabled=”disabled” /> is the valid markup. For HTML5, <input type=”text” disabled /> is valid and used by W3C on their samples. In fact, both ways works on all major browsers.
Something like that should be what you need private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { // Create OpenFileDialog Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog dlg = new Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog(); // Set filter for file extension and default file extension dlg.DefaultExt = “.png”; dlg.Filter = “JPEG Files (*.jpeg)|*.jpeg|PNG Files (*.png)|*.png|JPG Files (*.jpg)|*.jpg|GIF Files (*.gif)|*.gif”; // Display OpenFileDialog by calling ShowDialog method Nullable<bool> … Read more
Excerpted from Josh Stodola’s Setting keyboard caret Position in a Textbox or TextArea with Javascript A generic function that will allow you to insert the caret at any position of a textbox or textarea that you wish: function setCaretPosition(elemId, caretPos) { var elem = document.getElementById(elemId); if(elem != null) { if(elem.createTextRange) { var range = elem.createTextRange(); … Read more
Use a TextBox with these settings instead to make it read only and to look like a TextBlock control. <TextBox Background=”Transparent” BorderThickness=”0″ Text=”{Binding Text, Mode=OneWay}” IsReadOnly=”True” TextWrapping=”Wrap” />
We have it so the first click selects all, and another click goes to cursor (our application is designed for use on tablets with pens). You might find it useful. public class ClickSelectTextBox : TextBox { public ClickSelectTextBox() { AddHandler(PreviewMouseLeftButtonDownEvent, new MouseButtonEventHandler(SelectivelyIgnoreMouseButton), true); AddHandler(GotKeyboardFocusEvent, new RoutedEventHandler(SelectAllText), true); AddHandler(MouseDoubleClickEvent, new RoutedEventHandler(SelectAllText), true); } private static void … Read more
You can create a watermark that can be added to any TextBox with an Attached Property. Here is the source for the Attached Property: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Windows; using System.Windows.Controls; using System.Windows.Controls.Primitives; using System.Windows.Documents; /// <summary> /// Class that provides the Watermark attached property /// </summary> public static class WatermarkService { … Read more
At regular intervals, I am adding new lines of text to it. I would like the textbox to automatically scroll to the bottom-most entry (the newest one) whenever a new line is added. If you use TextBox.AppendText(string text), it will automatically scroll to the end of the newly appended text. It avoids the flickering scrollbar … Read more
Add a preview text input event. Like so: <TextBox PreviewTextInput=”PreviewTextInput” />. Then inside that set the e.Handled if the text isn’t allowed. e.Handled = !IsTextAllowed(e.Text); I use a simple regex in IsTextAllowed method to see if I should allow what they’ve typed. In my case I only want to allow numbers, dots and dashes. private … Read more
Do this. If your element is something like this.. <input type=”text” id=”mytext”/> Your script would be <script> function setFocusToTextBox(){ document.getElementById(“mytext”).focus(); } </script>