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Text The text box is useful for getting input from users and displaying it.

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Form Design Actions

Clicking on a column pops up a design actions menu with the following options:

  • Cut action cuts the control. Use paste action to move the control to another location after cutting.
  • Copy action copies the control. Use paste action to add the control to another location after copying.
  • Delete action deletes the control.
  • XML is used to view and edit xml of the control.
  • Convert is used to change the content control into other control types.

Design

Under design tab on the right hand menu you

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When you click on the convert button, the text box is converted to HTML editor.

Design

You can find the visibility and style options of the text boxbox under the design tab of the right-hand menu.

Size
Large, Big, Medium , and Small options are listed. Selecting one of these will shrink or fit the text box into its container.

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Hints
The text in this area pops up when you hover over the text box.

Type
Specify the type of a text box as text, password, email, search , and urlor URL. According to this the type parameter , a related icon shows up on the leftmost of the text box. In addition, when the password type is selected, the input is displayed as star in asterisk characters.

Rules

Required for the Group
Enter any name into this area to specify a validation group for the text box. After that when you enter this same validation group name into Validation Group area on any action button of any task, it will be checked for validation whenever the action is selected on the form.

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Maximum Length
Allowed maximum Maximum allowed length of a text value.

Input Mask
Allowed input mask. You should use 9 for [0-9], a for [a-Z], * for [0-a-Z].

Dynamic Rules
Through this button you can add two types of rules to the text box control. Click one of them and you will see it is listed above the button. It has two buttons to edit and delete the rule.

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Data

Bound XPath
Changes XPath of the text box.

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