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How can I force the users to enter characters in uppercase? I want to do this
in a TextBox control of an aspx page. Then I want the same to be moved to inside a GridView control. Thanks.
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>> How can I force the users to enter characters in uppercase? I want to >> do this in a TextBox control of an aspx page. Then I want the same to >> be moved to inside a GridView control. Depending on what is the content of that box, it might be very bad for international users. And in fact I would hate such a "feature" as US user. It forces me to press caps-lock and type in ugly caps text that "screams" And this is just to save some programmer the trouble of calling one single API to convert a string to uppercase. [quoted text, click to view] > Add a RegularExpressionValidator to the form and set it's expression to: Again, bad internationalization. What about accented characters?> > ^[A-Z]+$ > > If for some reason the regex validator defaults to caseinsensitive (I've > never tried if it is before now that I think of it) you can use: > > ^(?-i:[A-Z])$ Russian, Greek, etc.? -- Mihai Nita [Microsoft MVP, Windows - SDK] http://www.mihai-nita.net ------------------------------------------
Hello rkbnair,
[quoted text, click to view] > How can I force the users to enter characters in uppercase? I want to > do this in a TextBox control of an aspx page. Then I want the same to > be moved to inside a GridView control. Add a RegularExpressionValidator to the form and set it's expression to: ^[A-Z]+$ If for some reason the regex validator defaults to caseinsensitive (I've never tried if it is before now that I think of it) you can use: ^(?-i:[A-Z])$ To force case sensitive mathing -- Jesse Houwing jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl
Hello Mihai N.,
[quoted text, click to view] >>> How can I force the users to enter characters in uppercase? I want >>> to do this in a TextBox control of an aspx page. Then I want the >>> same to be moved to inside a GridView control. >>> > Depending on what is the content of that box, it might be very bad for > international users. > > And in fact I would hate such a "feature" as US user. > It forces me to press caps-lock and type in ugly caps text that > "screams" > And this is just to save some programmer the trouble of calling one > single > API to convert a string to uppercase. >> Add a RegularExpressionValidator to the form and set it's expression >> to: >> >> ^[A-Z]+$ >> >> If for some reason the regex validator defaults to caseinsensitive >> (I've never tried if it is before now that I think of it) you can >> use: >> >> ^(?-i:[A-Z])$ >> > Again, bad internationalization. What about accented characters? > Russian, Greek, etc.? But if you're talking about some whipment code or a similar thign that will be printed on some box, it might be unwise to allow greek, chineese etc. I totally agree that in most situations it would not be a good thing to limit a user to a very short range of characters, but there are some options I could think of where it does make sense. I agree that it would be even better to allow both lower and upper case variants and just call ToUpper when the user leaves the field. -- Jesse Houwing jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl
Hello Jesse,
[quoted text, click to view] > Hello Mihai N., > >>>> How can I force the users to enter characters in uppercase? I want >>>> to do this in a TextBox control of an aspx page. Then I want the >>>> same to be moved to inside a GridView control. >>>> >> Depending on what is the content of that box, it might be very bad >> for international users. >> >> And in fact I would hate such a "feature" as US user. >> It forces me to press caps-lock and type in ugly caps text that >> "screams" >> And this is just to save some programmer the trouble of calling one >> single >> API to convert a string to uppercase. >>> Add a RegularExpressionValidator to the form and set it's expression >>> to: >>> >>> ^[A-Z]+$ >>> >>> If for some reason the regex validator defaults to caseinsensitive >>> (I've never tried if it is before now that I think of it) you can >>> use: >>> >>> ^(?-i:[A-Z])$ >>> >> Again, bad internationalization. What about accented characters? >> Russian, Greek, etc.? >> > But if you're talking about some whipment code or a similar thign that whipment What was I thinking ;). I meant a Shipment Code on a parcel. [quoted text, click to view] > will be printed on some box, it might be unwise to allow greek, --> chineese etc. I totally agree that in most situations it would not be > a good thing to limit a user to a very short range of characters, but > there are some options I could think of where it does make sense. > > I agree that it would be even better to allow both lower and upper > case variants and just call ToUpper when the user leaves the field. > > -- > Jesse Houwing > jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl Jesse Houwing jesse.houwing at sogeti.n
Why I can't use something like this?
<edititemtemplate> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox_str_coast_ref" runat="server" Text='<%#Bind ("str_coast_ref").ToUpper()%>' </asp:TextBox> </edititemtemplate> It gives syntax error ! [quoted text, click to view] "Jesse Houwing" wrote:
> Hello Jesse, > > > Hello Mihai N., > > > >>>> How can I force the users to enter characters in uppercase? I want > >>>> to do this in a TextBox control of an aspx page. Then I want the > >>>> same to be moved to inside a GridView control. > >>>> > >> Depending on what is the content of that box, it might be very bad > >> for international users. > >> > >> And in fact I would hate such a "feature" as US user. > >> It forces me to press caps-lock and type in ugly caps text that > >> "screams" > >> And this is just to save some programmer the trouble of calling one > >> single > >> API to convert a string to uppercase. > >>> Add a RegularExpressionValidator to the form and set it's expression > >>> to: > >>> > >>> ^[A-Z]+$ > >>> > >>> If for some reason the regex validator defaults to caseinsensitive > >>> (I've never tried if it is before now that I think of it) you can > >>> use: > >>> > >>> ^(?-i:[A-Z])$ > >>> > >> Again, bad internationalization. What about accented characters? > >> Russian, Greek, etc.? > >> > > But if you're talking about some whipment code or a similar thign that > > whipment > > What was I thinking ;). I meant a Shipment Code on a parcel. > > > > will be printed on some box, it might be unwise to allow greek, > > chineese etc. I totally agree that in most situations it would not be > > a good thing to limit a user to a very short range of characters, but > > there are some options I could think of where it does make sense. > > > > I agree that it would be even better to allow both lower and upper > > case variants and just call ToUpper when the user leaves the field. > > > > -- > > Jesse Houwing > > jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl > -- > Jesse Houwing > jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl > >
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> But if you're talking about some whipment code or a similar thign that will > be printed on some box, it might be unwise to allow greek, chineese etc. This is why my answer starts with: "Depending on what is the content of that box, it might be very bad for international users." Maybe my English was not clear enough, but that was the idea :-) -- Mihai Nita [Microsoft MVP, Windows - SDK] http://www.mihai-nita.net ------------------------------------------
yes
[quoted text, click to view] "rkbnair" wrote:
> Why I can't use something like this? > > <edititemtemplate> > > <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox_str_coast_ref" runat="server" Text='<%#Bind > ("str_coast_ref").ToUpper()%>' > </asp:TextBox> > > </edititemtemplate> > > It gives syntax error ! > > "Jesse Houwing" wrote: > > > Hello Jesse, > > > > > Hello Mihai N., > > > > > >>>> How can I force the users to enter characters in uppercase? I want > > >>>> to do this in a TextBox control of an aspx page. Then I want the > > >>>> same to be moved to inside a GridView control. > > >>>> > > >> Depending on what is the content of that box, it might be very bad > > >> for international users. > > >> > > >> And in fact I would hate such a "feature" as US user. > > >> It forces me to press caps-lock and type in ugly caps text that > > >> "screams" > > >> And this is just to save some programmer the trouble of calling one > > >> single > > >> API to convert a string to uppercase. > > >>> Add a RegularExpressionValidator to the form and set it's expression > > >>> to: > > >>> > > >>> ^[A-Z]+$ > > >>> > > >>> If for some reason the regex validator defaults to caseinsensitive > > >>> (I've never tried if it is before now that I think of it) you can > > >>> use: > > >>> > > >>> ^(?-i:[A-Z])$ > > >>> > > >> Again, bad internationalization. What about accented characters? > > >> Russian, Greek, etc.? > > >> > > > But if you're talking about some whipment code or a similar thign that > > > > whipment > > > > What was I thinking ;). I meant a Shipment Code on a parcel. > > > > > > > will be printed on some box, it might be unwise to allow greek, > > > chineese etc. I totally agree that in most situations it would not be > > > a good thing to limit a user to a very short range of characters, but > > > there are some options I could think of where it does make sense. > > > > > > I agree that it would be even better to allow both lower and upper > > > case variants and just call ToUpper when the user leaves the field. > > > > > > -- > > > Jesse Houwing > > > jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl > > -- > > Jesse Houwing > > jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl > > > >
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