Setting colors for Design Time Controls at run-time

[computergeek]

Hello,

How do you set the color for a textbox or label DESIGN TIME CONTROL at run-time within a script? There doesn't seem to be any properties to set at run-time within a script. In my code I change the text within the control based on some validation, then I want to set the text to green or red based on the validation.

Help please...

Thanks in advance your help!

 

[MerlinB]

CLIENT SIDE...
If you want to change the colors (colours) on the client-side (i.e. by using browser commands), then you will have to refer to the text box using client side javascript

document.thisPage.txtTextBox.style...

(refer to DOM documentation to figure-out how to change color etc.).

1. Labels are slighly harder, because they are not 'named' - so trying to find them in Client-Side code is tricky.
2. You will need to figure out which event causes your javascript to run. The usual DTC way is to add a thisPage_onbeforeserverevent event handler (search in help for this - and manually add the parameters).

SERVER SIDE...
If you want to do the colouring on the Server, then you can look at the _scriptlibrary files (LABEL.ASP & TEXTBOX.ASP). Currently, there are no features to apply colouring to labels or textboxes - but you could add properties to both to:
set a color and other font attributes
or
set a stylesheet id reference name (and create a stylesheet with appropriate id names).

I think that I have placed an example in the FAQ section of tek-tips, so check there.

NOTE: If you look at the HTML that is produced by DTC's you may find that you can add the font attributes on either side of each DTC.
ie

<% if nAmount > 100 then Response.Write &quot;<FONT COLOR=RED>&quot; %>
...your DTC goes here...
<% if nAmount > 100 then Response.write &quot;</FONT>&quot; %>

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