Haven't been able to find a good answer to my situation yet. I want this textbox to only take numbers and still have the id "SearchString2" so I can use it in my controller. Any idea how?
if (Roles.IsUserInRole(WebSecurity.CurrentUserName, "Admin"))
{
@:<p><b>Customer ID:</b> @Html.TextBox("SearchString2")</p>
}
Thanks in advance.
You can do something like this:
@Html.TextBox('SearchString2', new { @type = "number" })
This should set the type to be a number, you could then use attributes on your model to help limit it to only ints like so:
[RegularExpression(@"^[A-Z]+[a-zA-Z''-'\s]*$")]
[Required]
public string SearchString2 { get; set; }
You'll need to replace the regex with an actual regex and put an validation message in.
Here's more info on validation: http://www.asp.net/mvc/overview/getting-started/introduction/adding-validation
Actually, I think the correction needed to the above answer is
@Html.TextBox('SearchString2',null, new {@type="number"})
otherwise type=number shows up in the value.
