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Text box to accept only number
<HTML>
   <HEAD>
   <SCRIPT language=Javascript>
      
      function isNumberKey(evt)
      {
         var charCode = (evt.which) ? evt.which : event.keyCode
         if (charCode > 31 && (charCode < 48 || charCode > 57))
            return false;
 
         return true;
      }
      
   </SCRIPT>
   </HEAD>
   <BODY>
      <INPUT id="txtChar" onkeypress="return isNumberKey(event)" type="text" name="txtChar">
   </BODY>
</HTML>


Just paste the Script Section in the Head section and in on key press call the function.
For C#, just paste the following code:

function allownumbers(e) {
        var key = window.event ? e.keyCode : e.which;
        var keychar = String.fromCharCode(key);
        var reg = new RegExp("[0-9.]")
        if (key == 8) {
            //alert(key);
            keychar = String.fromCharCode(key);
        }

And in PageLoad:
txtNum.Attributes.Add("onkeypress", "javascript:return allownumbers(event);");

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Comments and Discussions

 
QuestionGood Solution Pin
Alireza_136220-Mar-13 22:24
Alireza_136220-Mar-13 22:24 
GeneralMy vote of 2 Pin
niubay11-Sep-12 3:31
niubay11-Sep-12 3:31 
GeneralRe: by small digits I mean something like: 1.2345, 6.78 etc I ... Pin
Huisheng Chen24-Apr-11 12:14
Huisheng Chen24-Apr-11 12:14 
GeneralRe: Agreed. Something like this regular expression /^-?[0-9]+(\.... Pin
danlobo29-Dec-11 23:32
danlobo29-Dec-11 23:32 
GeneralRe: Negative values you just have to program to allow the minus ... Pin
Ed Nutting24-Apr-11 3:08
Ed Nutting24-Apr-11 3:08 
GeneralRe: The keyboard remapping just assigns different characters to ... Pin
AspDotNetDev24-Apr-11 0:44
protectorAspDotNetDev24-Apr-11 0:44 
The keyboard remapping just assigns different characters to the physical keys... doesn't change the underlying code of the characters. And I'm gonna have to call BS on the different encodings. If it were in a different encoding, using the character in quotes wouldn't help... they'd still be interpreted as the same ASCII code. UTF-8, by the way, is compatible with ASCII... the first 128 characters or so in UTF-8 map to the same characters as ASCII. And the encoding doesn't matter by the time the Javascript is reached... encodings are just a way to store the same codes in different formats for transmission (such as over a network or in a file). I imagine by the time the characters reach Javascript, the same encoding is used in memory regardless of the encoding of the text in the input fields (as is done in C#). In short, using characters rather than numbers may help readability, but it would not make the code more portable.
GeneralRe: For starters you can remap your keyboard but also, the world... Pin
Ed Nutting23-Apr-11 22:57
Ed Nutting23-Apr-11 22:57 
GeneralReason for my vote of 5 exclent Pin
lovepreet_shota18-Jun-11 17:15
lovepreet_shota18-Jun-11 17:15 
GeneralThis is all well and good unless of course my keyboards numb... Pin
Ed Nutting23-Apr-11 2:40
Ed Nutting23-Apr-11 2:40 
GeneralRe: What do you mean? How would your keyboard number keys use di... Pin
AspDotNetDev23-Apr-11 18:51
protectorAspDotNetDev23-Apr-11 18:51 
GeneralRe: what if small digits or negative values? I think using regex... Pin
Huisheng Chen24-Apr-11 3:05
Huisheng Chen24-Apr-11 3:05 
GeneralExplanation needed Pin
Indivara18-Apr-11 12:05
professionalIndivara18-Apr-11 12:05 
GeneralRe: Explanation needed Pin
Prasad_Kulkarni27-Dec-11 18:52
Prasad_Kulkarni27-Dec-11 18:52 

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