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textbox date masking

grahamor · 2007-06-20 13:07:53

Hi, My client has asked to be able to enter a date into a textbox with slashes already in the textbox, i.e. __/__/____ and be able to tab between the day,month and year Is there a way to make the slashes undeletable or would it be best to format it with javascript on every keystroke. I saw something on the Code Project but…

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20-06-2007 2:07pm

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grahamor

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Hi,

My client has asked to be able to enter a date into a textbox with slashes already in the textbox, i.e. __/__/____ and be able to tab between the day,month and year

Is there a way to make the slashes undeletable or would it be best to format it with javascript on every keystroke.

I saw something on the Code Project but it was for a windows form, not an asp.net app.

Thanks

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#2 20-06-2007 2:38pm
dal

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Would it not be better to have 3 different textboxes? You could put undeletable slashes between them if you want. Would make tabbing easier as well.

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#3 20-06-2007 3:21pm
Evil Phil

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The Asp.net Ajax control toolkit has a masked edit control that does exactly what your looking for. The toolkit isn't to everybody's liking but you could use it as a reference for creating your own.

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