Maintaining textbox pixel width with RadInputManager

[Kevin Cabritit]

I am attempting to use the RadInputManager on a form. This form consists of about 10 regular textboxes and a RadInputManager.

Some of the textboxes are larger than others. They have been applied a particular css style, either 'form25' or 'form50', which define a width in pixels.

When rendering the page, RadInputManager converts the textboxes and the style is replaced, making all textboxes the same width.

I have attempted to override the style using 'html body form .RadInputMgr_Simple .form50' as the css tag, but am not having any luck. I have read the blog post regarding overriding styles and specificity, but am unable to get this working.

Please tell me how I can go about doing this. There are hundreds of textbox controls through this site and I'd like to maintain their width while taking advantage of the RadInputManager functionality.

Thanks.

[Kevin Cabritit]

*bump*

Can anyone help?

[Maria Ilieva]

Hello Alex,

Thank you for contacting us and for your question.

 Possible solution for your issue could be to set css class for a particular TextBox setting in the RadInputManager settings and not in the TextBox directly.  RadInputManager settings contain the necessary css properties which could be used ( DisabledCssClass, EmptyMessageCssClass, EnabledCssClass, FocusedCssClass, HoveredCssClass, ReadOnlyCssClass).

Let us know if this helps and if further assistance is needed.

Best wishes,
Maria Ilieva
the Telerik team

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[Kevin Cabritit]

Thanks for the reply.

I have experimented with using these CSS tags, however to implement these retroactively will take forever.

Take this for example:

                                            <telerik:RadInputManager ID="RadInputManager1" runat="server">
                                                <telerik:TextBoxSetting Validation-IsRequired="True" BehaviorID="RequiredFields">
                                                    <TargetControls>
                                                        <telerik:TargetInput ControlID="Password" />
                                                        <telerik:TargetInput ControlID="UserName" />
                                                        <telerik:TargetInput ControlID="ConfirmPassword" />
                                                        <telerik:TargetInput ControlID="Address1" />
                                                        <telerik:TargetInput ControlID="Email" />
                                                        <telerik:TargetInput ControlID="City" />
                                                        <telerik:TargetInput ControlID="PostCode" />
                                                        <telerik:TargetInput ControlID="State" />
                                                        <telerik:TargetInput ControlID="PhoneNumber" />
                                                        <telerik:TargetInput ControlID="Answer" />
                                                        <telerik:TargetInput ControlID="Name" />
                                                    </TargetControls>
                                                    <Validation IsRequired="True" />
                                                </telerik:TextBoxSetting>
                                                <telerik:TextBoxSetting Validation-IsRequired="False" BehaviorID="NotRequiredFields">
                                                    <TargetControls>
                                                        <telerik:TargetInput ControlID="Address2" />
                                                    </TargetControls>
                                                </telerik:TextBoxSetting>
                                            </telerik:RadInputManager>

There's a few textbox fields here, some are small, some are large.

Right now, all I need to do is to define which are required fields and which are not.

To implement CSS tags would result in 4 times the amount of configuration here.

Surely there's a way to override with a global css change?

[Maria Ilieva]

Hello Alex,

Currently the best option for your scenario could be to define particular width to a container which contains several text boxes. In this way it will not be necessary to define this setting for each input control. For example:

<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" TagPrefix="telerik" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<title>RadControls</title>
<style type="text/css">

.width50 .RadInputMgr
{
      width:50px;
}

.width150 .RadInputMgr
{
      width:150px;
}

</style>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server" />

<telerik:RadInputManager ID="RadInputManager1" runat="server">
      <telerik:TextBoxSetting>
            <TargetControls>
                  <telerik:TargetInput ControlID="TextBox1" />
                  <telerik:TargetInput ControlID="TextBox2" />
            </TargetControls>
      </telerik:TextBoxSetting>
</telerik:RadInputManager>

<span class="width50">
      <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" />
</span>

<span class="width150">
      <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server" />
</span>

</form>
</body>
</html>

Let us know if this helps.

All the best,
Maria Ilieva
the Telerik team

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