I want to limit the Textbox to a range of characters in VB. For example, I want the user to enter strings from 5-7 characters. I know how to limit the Textbox to a certain number of characters by MaxLength but that will give him the option of writing just 3 or 4 characters which I don't want to allow that from happening.
View 4 RepliesI wanted to set a maximum limit of characters of textbox in the properties but i can't find where it is located unlike in vb 6.0 you can set the characters in maxlength...
View 6 Repliesi would like to limit a textbox input to 20 characters and only one line to input the characters.. i really have no idea where to start. i did see some forum threads, except they're for different options other than the option i need.. trujade.so much work to do and so many choices to choose from...
View 5 Repliesi have one more issues, and hope is the last for now. How can I limit a textboxe's input to only numerical with certain range of values (eg -10 to 10) and with that happening while I type in the values?
View 9 RepliesI was wondering how to limit the textbox to have a range of numbers like
one can input numbers from 1 to 150
I already made the textbox only do 3 characters and only numbers but kinda stuck here.
How could I limit the random number range? For instance, limiting the number within the range of 1-100.
View 5 RepliesI have several text boxes (1-4) that I need to limit to ONLY numbers.
I need a minimum value of 1 and a maximum value of 99999.
I just don't want letters or special characters ($,#,%,@) to be allowed. Numbers only.
I have 200 dynamic textboxes.
I am trying to limit the user input to exactly 5 characters ( not more, not less ), and numeric only.
I have been trying this :
Private Function txtValid()
Dim str As String
For Each txt As TextBox In Panel1.Controls
[Code]....
But it always shows the last messagebox. Not all 200 textboxes will be filled in, so I suspect that it may have something to do with that, but I just need to stop the user from entering alphabetical characters, and the entered field must have a length of 5
Is there a limit of characters for DocumentText of the WebBrowser control? When I try to copy it to the clipboard, it is always truncated.
View 14 RepliesEssentially I am trying to replicate the Windows 7 (In-Windows) activation key TextBox form. The Form where it will auto capitalize letters, remove or deny all non alphanumeric characters except dashes every 5 characters that will be auto-input.I assume this can be done with a fairly complicated replacement Regular Expression but I cannot seem to create one to fit the needs.
This is an Example of what I have right now, but it creates an infinite loop as it removes all characters including dashes, than adds a dash, which changes the text and removes the dash again.
[Code]...
I have two textboxes. I type in one of them and the text gets copied in real time into another textbox. There is one catch. I need to replace specific character with something else.
If I enter a quote " in textbox1, it has to be replaced with " in textbox2.
I started with something like the below code, but obviously this does not work (tried different stuff - this is for demonstration only). In the example below 'a' represents " , and 'b' represents "
Private Sub TextBox1_KeyUp(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TextBox1.KeyUp
TextBox2.Text = TextBox1.Text
[Code]....
I am trying to auto tab to the next text box after my limit of characters has been reached in a text box. Visual Basic 2010 Can this be set in the properties? I have 7 boxes, each allowed to hold only one character.
View 5 RepliesHow do I limit the number of characters per each line of an RTB to 1 char per line? That is you type one character, after that the textbox should not accept further input on that specific line.-Knock knock -Who's there? -(looong pause..) Java
View 1 Repliesdoes textbox has a limit because I added a (very long) code and I couldn't paste further..What can I do make it bigger? I mean bigger of capacity.
View 4 RepliesI wanna type 140 characters in asp.net textbox with multiline when i type in textbox then the characters will be decreaded means if i type two characters in textbox then in label the available characters will be shown is 138..using vb.net
View 1 RepliesI have this textbox and i want to limit the number of digets able to be entered to 4.
View 4 RepliesHow can I make a textbox in which can be only typed a number like 12.00 or 1231231.00 or 123123
I've done this in a very long way and I'm looking for the best and fastest way.
Also the decimal separator must be culture specific.:
Application.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.NumberDecimalSeparator
So far I have code for a textbox that limits the value entered by a user to two value places. However, I would like to limit the value entered by a user to numerical values only. And to handle any exceptions that go along with it.
View 2 RepliesI have a textbox and I would like to limit this textbox to enter 10 digits only. Is there a way to do it?
View 3 RepliesI want to limit length in textbox. not total maxlength but maxlength perline. for example. if I choose to limit 7 char per line. when words exceeded 7 in a line textbox will start a newline.(without break the word) can anyone tell how to make it? I did actually search for a long time.[code]although in text "For best results" s is the 8th char in first line.but it;s a word I dont want to break it
View 6 RepliesAlthough set textbox width can fit my request.but when writes textbox.text to a file it's actually in one line. for example"Scientists say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information from e-mail and other interruptions. "
is actually one line text.but it shows 2 lines in my textbox. I want when it write to a .txt file it keep what is looks like in textbox. But it's actually one line in textbox. hope I make my question clear.
is there any method to do what I say? what I think is add a Environment.NewLine at each row end. or limit length in textbox. not total maxlength but maxlength perline. for example. if I choose to limit N char per line. when words exceeded N in a line textbox will start a newline.(without break the word) can anyone tell how to make it? I did actually search for a long time.. but I didn't find any useful information for my request.
How can we limit the textbox to input ONLY three numbers and three letters?
View 2 RepliesHow can i limit the user to input only one period in textbox cause in my textbox the user can input may periods on it??
View 3 RepliesI have a text box that I only want the user to enter A, B, C or D (it'll give an error msg if anything else is entered)
View 6 RepliesI want to control a textbox to only allow numbers, backspace and a certain length. Ive tried with the IsNumeric function but I cant seem to get it to work.
View 5 RepliesHow do I code in vb.net that the text box can only accept 10 inputs from the user. User can only enter 10 strings.
View 2 RepliesI am a new VB programmer and am using TextBox in VB2008. Here are the problems I experienced in TextBox -
1, After I typed number in TextBox and found I need to type another number. So I used backspace key to remove it. But at this time program quit and displayed this problem: InvalidCastException was unhandled. How to solve this issue?
2, Can anybody tell me how to set number of characters are allowed to be typed in TextBox?
3, Can anybody tell me how to implement the feature that only numbers are allowed to be typed? In case letters are typed, how to tell user to re-type?
yeah im very far with the project right now just a day or two probably of completely finish it, but im so far that itll break alot of things if i change a textbox i have for a maskedtextbox, besides there are some things that the normal textbox does a bit differently than maskedtextbox, ive searched around the net and found nothing about this in vb express, probably because everyone uses maskedtextboxes instead xD
View 7 Repliesthere any way that i can always have a / as the first character in the textbox?
View 14 RepliesUsing VB2008.We have copied a file into a textbox for editing.It is not allowed to delete certain characters, for example the $.
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