I have a textbox that should disallow entering any special characters.
The user can enter :
- A-Z
- a-z
- 0-9
- Space
How can I make the KeyDown
event to do this?
I have a textbox that should disallow entering any special characters.
The user can enter :
How can I make the KeyDown
event to do this?
Handling the KeyDown or KeyPress events is one way to do this, but programmers usually forget that a user can still copy-and-paste invalid text into the textbox.
A somewhat better way is to handle the TextChanged event, and strip out any offending characters there. This is a bit more complicated, as you have to keep track of the caret position and re-set it to the appropriate spot after changing the box's Text property.
Depending on your application's needs, I would just let the user type in whatever they want, and then flag the textbox (turn the text red or something) when the user tries to submit.