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• Rob Master

  Posted on Nov 1, 2011 (permalink)

  I want to use a RadMaskedTextInput control as a simple multiline text area with no masking... (mostly because I can leverage the "SelectionOnFocus" and "UpdateValueEvent" properties that it provides.  I have tried several properties that I thought would allow me to do this but to no avail.  I cannot seem to remove the mask, and or get the multiline feature working.
  
  I then noticed the "PickerTextBox" which will allow me set up multilne very easily, but does not have the "SelectionOnFocus" or "UpdateValueEvent" properties...
  
  Is there no simple "RadTextArea" or "RadTextBox" control?

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• Tina Stancheva Tina Stancheva

  Posted on Nov 4, 2011 (permalink)

  Hello Rob,
  
  The RadMaskedInput controls don't support a "no-mask" scenarios at the moment, however we have logged this issue as a feature request in our PITS and you can vote for it here.
  
  This is why I believe that in your case it would be best to take advantage of the RadMaskedTextBox control. It has a property MaskType, which you can set to None. Also in order to make it multi-line, you need to apply a custom style to its ExtendedTextBox element and set its AcceptsReturn property to True.
  
  I attached a sample project to demonstrate this approach. Let me know if it helps.
  
  Greetings,
  Tina Stancheva
  the Telerik team

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  Attached files

  • MaskedTextBoxSample.zip

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