I need a quick answer please ....Very simple question about <input type="text"> contro...?

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I used control in my page but I can not make it multiline even when I increase it's height or pressing enter key to jump toa new line.

Please I HAVE to use this control exactly how can I make it multiline enabled ?

Yes I can do it using but <TextArea> has no value property to bind it to dataitem in gridview control so I chose <Input type="text"> because it has value property but this <input> has other bad thing which is I can not make it multiline enabled NOW What is the solution? </p> <p> <small> <a href="/en/2006-09-05">2006-09-05</a> <span>03:17:22</span> · <span>update #1</span> </small> </p> </div> <div class='question-main'> <p class='question-content' lang="en"> I know that also Tenar2 ,<br /> I am talking about value property access from inline code like this:<br /> <input type="text" value="<%eval("mycomment")%>"/><br /> How can I do this line of code with Textarea control? </p> <p> <small> <a href="/en/2006-09-05">2006-09-05</a> <span>04:47:31</span> · <span>update #2</span> </small> </p> </div> <div class='question-main'> <p class='question-content' lang="en"> I come to this conclusion .....<br /> There is NO WAY of :<br /> Databinding a multiline html text control<br /> in the gridview as the <asp:label> control<br /> <br /> AM I RIGHT???????plz say no </p> <p> <small> <a href="/en/2006-09-05">2006-09-05</a> <span>04:51:34</span> · <span>update #3</span> </small> </p> </div> <div class='question-main'> <p class='question-content' lang="en"> John I tried your code :<br /> <textarea .....><%bind("mycomment")%>

an error occured says bind must be set inside the control ......

and Zhao_Kevin ...textarea DOES not support value property and I can not use combination textarea and input ...just think of it ,one has value property and the other not ,the other one has multiline option and the other not ....

WHAT IS THE SOLUTION????
IS MY CONCLUSION CORRECT????
OooHH MYYY GOOODDD....

Answer 1

You want to use the tag.<br /> <br /> Example:<br /> <TEXTAREA NAME="query" COLS="20" ROWS="5"><br /> Please type your query here.<br />

Answer 2

As the person stated above, with Textarea instead of a value property input the default text between the tags

<br /> <br /> Please type something here<br /> <br /> THIS AREA IS THE SAME AS VLAUE="something"<br /> <br />

Answer 3

are only a one line input. The only way to get multiple lines is by using a text area. The value of a text area is the CDATA between the open an closing tags -

The default value here

if you are using javascript to get the value of the textarea it would be something like:

document.getElementById( "myTextarea" ).value="The default value here";

to do your asp code just include what you would put in 'value=" <%eval("mycomment")%>"/> " ' inside the tags like: <%eval("mycomment")%>"/>

Answer 4

As I know the input does not support multiple lines (you can increase its height, but user still can not use the Enter key to start a new line); but the support value property. Therefore, I also suggest to use the <textarea>. using<br /> <br /> document.getElementById('textareaname').value;<br /> <br /> see the code below<br /> <br /> <textarea rows=2 name="abc">aaa
value="ccc"
type=button>

BTW, actually is one type of <INPUT><br /> <br /> If you really want to use the <INPUT>, then simplist solution would be use a <textarea> as the interface and hide the <INPUT> behind. Assign the textarea value into the input using the eventhandler onBlur. see code below<br /> <br /> <input <br /> onclick="alert(document.getElementById('hiddenfield').value);" value="ccc" <br /> type=button><br /> <textarea rows=2 <br /> name="interface" <br /> onBlur="document.getElementById('hiddenfield').value = this.value;"><br />




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