ReadOnly Controls

Question

User2012067485 posted

Hello,

I'm currently looking for some controls that render readonly content as span's rather than the original control.  i.e. a readonly textbox would be rendered as <span>Text Value</span> rather than <input type="text" value="Text Value" />.  I started implementing the textbox example myself which works fine until I brought validators into the equation which fail if the textbox is empty.

 

Does anyone  have any thoughts about a control library that does this?

Thanks

 

Neil 

Answer 1

User1564875471 posted
why you don't use the label ?

Answer 2

User2012067485 posted

 Hello,

This is how we are currently working though this is a time cunsuming task as when we add new pages into the system or new fields onto a existing page.  This also leads to a lot of unnecessary code which is just performing the same task of detecting whether the page should be readonly and if so hiding the current input field and displaying a label instead.

The way I see it a group of controls which inherit of the standard textbox, dropdownlist, checkbox(s) and radio button(s) would provide this functionaility without all the code.

Thanks

Neil 

Answer 3

User1564875471 posted

I think the best solution is to write a userControl , create a public proeprty for that control and let the usercontrol behave based on that property ,

so if you need a readonly text , you set the property value to readonly , which inform the usercontrol to render as a label ,

And set that property to Edit , to inform the label to render as textbox !

 

 

Answer 4

User-16411453 posted

The label Control just renders <span></span> tags.

The panel control just renders <div></div> tags.

Most controls don't really do anything special, but just render common tags in the proper format, HTML 4.0, XHTML 1.0, whatever you set the WebForm To.