Changing textboxes to hidden fields

jroxit · February 5th, 2006, 10:47 PM

Hi,

I need to change an existing text box to a hidden field. Please help!!!

<asp:textbox id="txtUser" runat="server" Width="134px"></asp:textbox>

I added value="theUsersName" and it populated the box...now I just need to make it hidden. I tried adding type="hidden" but that didn't work. Any help is truly appreciated!

gaurav_jain2403 · February 5th, 2006, 11:18 PM

Type = "hidden" will not work here as this is not the HTML control. Use this property:

textbox.visible = "false"

Gaurav

jroxit · February 5th, 2006, 11:21 PM

Do I put that inside the <asp:.....> tag?

jbenson001 · February 5th, 2006, 11:55 PM

You can put it in the tag, but if you want to do it programatically you need to do it in the code behind wiht:
textbox.visible = false

planoie · February 10th, 2006, 07:46 PM

If you actually want to make it a hidden form field (versus an invisible text box) you need to use the actual hidden form element. You can still have access to it from the code behind as a System.Web.UI.HtmlControl.HtmlInputHidden:

<input type="hidden" runat="server" id="hidUserName" />

-Peter