Always show textbox border

[Tim]

I can't seem to find an answer to this. I have a "Notes" field in a textbox. I want to always show the border around the textbox even if the field is null or empty string. How do I do this? Right now if the there is data in the field the border is displayed. If null or empty, no border.

Thanks.

[Steve]

Hi Tim,

We have not been able to reproduce this on our end and I have attached a sample report that uses the AdventureWorks database. On the left side there is an empty textbox with applied solid border, on the right side there is a textbox bound to the Color field from the Production.Product table which allows nulls. As you can see, the border is respected in both cases.

Greetings,
Steve
the Telerik team

[alin]

Hi,
I have the same problems with null values in preview. When print or export in pdf the border is visible. I attached the screenshot.

[Steve]

Hi Alin,

This is a known problem that slipped with the latest changes we made to the HTML rendering. For the time being you can workaround this by creating an user function to add   character whenever a textbox does not have a value e.g. value.Replace(" ", "\u00A0").

Kind regards,
Steve
the Telerik team

[alin]

Public Shared Function isnull(ByVal fld As String)

       Dim s As String = ""

       If fld Is Nothing Or fld = "" Then

           s = " "
       Else

           If fld.Trim = "" Then

                   s = " " 

 

 

           Else

             s = fld

           End If

       End If

       Return s

   End Function

Now is good in preview but not in PDF export and printing, it's printing nbsp; Have any other solution?

[alin]

Public Shared Function isnull(ByVal fld As String)

       Dim s As String = ""

       If fld Is Nothing Or fld = "" Then

           s = " "
       Else

           If fld.Trim = "" Then

                   s = " " 

            Else

             s = fld

           End If

       End If

       Return s

   End Function

Now is good in preview but not in PDF export and printing, it's printing nbsp;
Have any other solution?

[Steve]

Hello Alin,

You can use System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString("ExportFormat") and apply the suggested change only when ExportFormat is HTML.

Kind regards,
Steve
the Telerik team

[alin]

Hello Steve,

I have changed the function:

         Dim s As String = ""

       If fld Is Nothing Or fld = "" Then

           s = " "

       Else

           If fld.Trim = "" Then

               s = " "

           Else

               s = fld

           End If

       End If

       If System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString("ExportFormat") Is Nothing Then
          ' preview


           Return s

       Else

           Return fld

       End If

In preview and in PDF file is ok, but when printing (from Telerik Report Print button)
the   is printed

[alin]

 

I solved the problem, here is the code I used:

Public Shared Function isnull(ByVal fld As String)
       Dim s As String = ""
       If fld Is Nothing Or fld = "" Then
           s = " "
       Else
           If fld.Trim = "" Then
               s = " "
           Else
               s = fld
           End If
       End If
       If System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString("Refresh") Is Nothing Then
           Return fld
       Else
           Return s
       End If
   End Function

[Joel]

This seems to continue to slip through in releases as I just tried to go to Q1 2012.  Has there been another alternative developed to go back to prior functionality other than adding a function call to every box on a page (which is sometimes several hundred text boxes)?

[Steve]

Hi Joel,

Borders are correctly shown in the latest release even when the value is null and you can verify that by reviewing our CrossTab demo report which has quite a few empty/null cells.

Greetings,
Steve
the Telerik team