Is there a way to set the height of a multi-row textbox so that it automatically shows it's complete content without scrollbars, but also without unnecessary white space at the bottom?
Reason: I have a page which can be in edit or in read-only mode. In read-only mode, I'd like for all input controls to show their complete content, regardless of the amount of text (e. g. for printing). Is this possible?
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You can use the Rows property to specify the number of rows displayed in a multiline RadTextBox control -
review the following help article:
http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/telerik.web.ui-telerik.web.ui.radtextbox-rows.html
Best wishes,
Plamen
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Thanks for the quick response, Plamen! Well, I know the Rows property, but I don't know in advance how long the text in the textbox will be (depends on user entry), so I don't know in advance how many rows the textbox will need.
The point is that I want the textbox to be EXACTLY as high as required when the page is in read-only mode (in edit mode the height doen't matter). So it seems that I have to count the characters in the textbox and set the number of rows dynamically.
Disadvantage of this approach: the calculated number of rows can only be an estimation, especially because Internet Explorer breaks the line after a hyphen, but Firefox doesn't.
So I'm still hoping that the radTextbox has some kind of built-in feature for that purpose...
Currently, RadInput control does not support the requested functionality. Your request has been logged in our ToDo list for future consideration.
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Plamen
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Is there any news concerning this feature ?!
Thanks in advance for your answer.
Unfortunately, such feature will be very hard to be implemented and I doubt you will see it soon in the control. Anyway, your request has been logged in our ToDo list for future consideration. I will also appreciate if you provide links to online resources/other vendors which have this type of functionality included in their input controls. Thus we can research the matter in detail and eventually change our plans for future development.
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I have a similar need now. Considering the last discussion on this was 6 years ago, I am hoping something is now available/possible for the textbox control. Is there?
Thanks!
Automatically changing the height of a RadTextBox control is not available out of the box. However, you could achieve this functionality with little JavaScript. Try using the approach suggested in this forum post.
Regards,
Viktor Tachev
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