how to set hint on textbox in C#

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i want to show hint on text box like water mark inside the textbox. after click on the textbox is must automatically cleared.

Posted 4-Jun-15 0:36am

Neyon Denz

Updated 12-Feb-17 21:46pm

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aarif moh shaikh 4-Jun-15 7:30am

use Placeholder="Enter Name" on your textbox control

Richard Deeming 4-Jun-15 7:50am

Is this for ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF, or something else?

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Andy Lanng · Answer 1 · 2015-06-04T00:45:00

Solution 1

Simple :)

ASP.NET

<asp:textbox runat="server" id="txtBox placeholder=""></asp:textbox>

or fro winforms check out this article:

TextBox with Placeholder[^]

WPF XAMP:

XAML only WPF Watermarked TextBox[^] and A WatermarkTextBox in 3 lines of XAML[^]

finally: the heretics on SO have something

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/833943/watermark-hint-text-placeholder-textbox-in-wpf[^]

Posted 4-Jun-15 0:45am

Andy Lanng

Updated 4-Jun-15 2:17am

v4

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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan 4-Jun-15 7:10am

Are you sure he wanted ASP.NET based solution?

Andy Lanng 4-Jun-15 7:44am

Fair point well made. - solution updated ^_^

Richard Deeming 4-Jun-15 7:50am

TextBoxBase could also imply WPF. :)

Andy Lanng 4-Jun-15 8:18am

I don't know much about WPF, but google does :)

Gihan Liyanage · Answer 2 · 2015-06-04T19:14:00

Solution 5

Simple Article

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/27849/WaterMark-TextBox-For-Desktop-Applications-Using-C[^]

Posted 4-Jun-15 19:14pm

Gihan Liyanage

Yogesh Kumar Tyagi · Answer 3 · 2015-06-04T02:32:00

Solution 3

use text box Placeholder attribute

<asp:TextBox ID="placeholderTextBox" runat="server" placeholder="Enter Your Name"></asp:TextBox>

Posted 4-Jun-15 2:32am

Yogesh Kumar Tyagi

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Richard Deeming 4-Jun-15 8:33am

That's the same solution that Andy posted an hour ago.