RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX The following tables lists the most important properties/methods of the RadTextBox client-side object:
Properties
| Name | Parameters | Return Type | Description | | get_value | none | string | Returns the value of the text box. |
| set_value | string | none | Sets the value of the text box. |
| get_editValue | none | string | Gets the value of the text box as it is formatted when the text box has focus. |
| get_displayValue | none | string | Gets the value of the text box as it is formatted when the text box does not have focus. |
| get_textBoxValue | none | string | Gets the string that the user typed into the text box. |
| get_caretPosition | none | integer | Returns the current position of the caret. |
| set_caretPosition | integer | none | Sets the position of the caret. |
| get_styles | none | InputStyles | Returns the InputStyles Client object, which can be used to change the appearance of the text box when it is first loaded. |
| get_autoPostBack | none | boolean | Returns the value of the AutoPostBack property. |
| set_autoPostBack | boolean | none | Enables or disables postbacks when the user changes the text in the text box. |
| get_enabled | none | boolean | Returns true if the text box is enabled. |
| get_showButton | none | boolean | Returns true if the text box has an associated image button. |
| get_selectionOnFocus | none | Telerik.Web.UI.SelectionOnFocus | Returns the value of the SelectionOnFocus property. Possible values are Telerik.Web.UI.SelectionOnFocus.CaretToBeginning, Telerik.Web.UI.SelectionOnFocus.CaretToEnd, Telerik.Web.UI.SelectionOnFocus.None, and Telerik.Web.UI.SelectionOnFocus.SelectAll. |
| set_selectionOnFocus | Telerik.Web.UI.SelectionOnFocus | none | Sets the SelectionOnFocus property. |
| get_emptyMessage | none | string | Returns the message that appears when the text box value is an empty string. |
| set_emptyMessage | string | none | Sets the message that appears when the text box value is an empty string. |
| get_element | none | HTML element | Gets the DOM element for the input element that holds the edit value. |
| get_wrapperElement | none | HTML element | Gets the DOM element for the wrapper element. |
| get_visible | none | boolean | Returns whether the input element is rendered as hidden or not. Does not apply if the control is inside another hidden html element. |
| set_visible | boolean | none | Sets the input element as hidden on the client |
Methods
| Name | Parameters | Return Type | Description | | selectAllText | none | none | Selects all text in the text box. |
| selectText | integer, integer | none | Selects the text in the specified range of positions. The first parameter is the start of the range and the second is the end of the range. |
| enable | none | none | Enables the text box. |
| disable | none | none | Disables the text box. |
| focus | none | none | Sets focus to the text box so that the user can edit its value. |
| blur | none | none | Removes focus from the text box, moving it to the next control in the tab order of the page. |
| clear | none | none | Sets the value of the text box to an empty string. |
| isMultiLine | none | boolean | Returns true if the text mode is MultiLine. |
| isReadOnly | none | boolean | Returns true of the text box is read-only. |
| isEmpty | none | boolean | Returns true if the value of the text box is an empty string. |