Rad Numeric Texbox

[Rhonda]

I have a numeric textbox that is used to choose a birthday year.  I want the box to be blank when the form first comes up so I know if the user fills in the box or not.  I tried setting the value and it won't let me set to 0 since it is outside the Min/Max range.  Any suggestions?

[Shinu]

Hello Rhonda,


You could set the EmptyMessage for RadNumericTextBox so that user will know that he missed tyting birthday year.

ASPX:

<telerik:RadNumericTextBox ID="bYearTextBox" runat="server" EmptyMessage="Enter birthday year"
    MinValue="2000" MaxValue="2010">
</telerik:RadNumericTextBox>

-Shinu.

[Rhonda]

Thank you for the help, turns out that the textbox automatically added a value=0  and that was the problem.  Is there any trick to making the empty message show up in the combo boxes?

[Dimo]

Hello Rhonda,

Set AllowCustomText to "true" for the RadComboBox.

http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/using-emptymessage-property.html

Regards,
Dimo
the Telerik team

[Rhonda]

Sorry but that doesn't work because then the user isn't tied to only selecting one of the values in the combo box.

[Dimo]

Hello Rhonda,

I am afraid this is the way RadComboBox works currently. We will implement a different behavior for some of the next versions of the control.

All the best,
Dimo
the Telerik team