Friendly search engine url mask

[Pablo]

Hello, I am saving a value for a friendly search engine url string.
I am doing a site that is displaying news and I want the news to be easily read by google or yahoo.
So instead of having:
News.aspx?id=334
I want to have:
News.aspx?id=tropical-storm-forms-in-caribbean
I am wanting to save the "tropical-storm-forms-in-caribbean" part in a database field.  I want to use RadMaskedTextBox for the user to enter it, but I can't seem to figure out what mask to use.

Is it possible?  The AjaxControlToolKit has an extender for the TextBox control where you set validchars="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-" and you are done.

Is it something similar here? 

Thanks a lot!!

[Kevin Babcock]

Hello Pablo,

I'm not sure a RadMaskedTextBox is the best option for this circumstance. The mask options do not include the ability to create a mask for input of dynamic length. What I suggest is a RegularExpressionValidator.

	<telerik:RadTextBox ID="RadTextBox1" runat="server" />
	<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="RegularExpressionValidator1" runat="server"
	ValidationExpression="([a-zA-Z]+-?)+"
	ControlToValidate="RadTextBox1"
	ForeColor="Red"
	ErrorMessage="*">
	</asp:RegularExpressionValidator>

I hope this was helpful.

Regards,
Kevin Babcock