Im workin on a web application , and I have a form on which I have a textbox that users
must fill it using arabic language.
how can I control it using javascript ?
Changing the default language of the operting system to arabic will solve my problem.
How can i change the default language to arabic using javascript ???
and is it the best approch to do it??
Is their another method ?
-
Best you can do is setting dir="rtl" inside the textbox.user447356– user4473562010-12-09 09:08:11 +00:00Commented Dec 9, 2010 at 9:08
-
Did you try my solution?Jahan Zinedine– Jahan Zinedine2010-12-09 09:15:14 +00:00Commented Dec 9, 2010 at 9:15
-
1@shadow : dir="rtl" will just change the direction..not the input language.. @Jani: im trying it nowGrace– Grace2010-12-09 09:25:45 +00:00Commented Dec 9, 2010 at 9:25
Add a comment
|
5 Answers
Refer to this question and it will solve your problem pal Arabic text box
EDIT: Change the code to this
$().ready(function () {
$("input#NameTextBox").attr("lang", "fa");
});
6 Comments
Grace
Look what im tryin to do but still not workin $().ready(function () { $("input,textbox").each(function () { $("input[id$=NameTextBox]").attr("lang", "ar"); }); and i have in my form <asp:textbox id="NameTextBox" runat="server"/>
Jahan Zinedine
Did you add required js files(jquery and farsitype.js) to you page in the same order as I do?
Grace
yeah i did. <script src="../Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="../Scripts/jquery-1.4.1-vsdoc.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="../Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Grace
oh ok i forgot the farsitype...ill give a try
Jahan Zinedine
Another issue is that why do you add the duplicate reference to jquery? just add the minified or development file. you can use the development for debugging now and change it to minified when you publish it.
|
a better solution may be:
Comments
If using jquery in your application is possible you may take a look at the jquery direction plugin. You may see it in action here.
1 Comment
Grace
$().ready(function () { $("#submitButton").click(function () { $("input[id$=NameTextBox]").setDirections( { direction: 'rtl', textAlign: 'right' }, true ); }); this is what ive tried ... am i workin right?
If you want to limit the characters entered into a text box there is no use to set the language of the operating system.
You can use a RegularExpressionValidator or a CustomValidator which checks the characters entered, and displays a message saying those characters are not allowed.
Or add some form of javascript which limits the same. You have to decide if you want to block characters as they are typed, or display a message.
1 Comment
Grace
i dont want to block characters or to display any message..i just want to change the input textbox to arabic dynamically..is it possible?
You want to change the default language of the OS using JS? Never, ever, going to happen - your web page has absolutely no rights over the client machine.
As for making the page itself "be arabic", I really don't think there's anything you can do about this from a culture point of view, but in terms of merely making the page right-to-left there's a lot that needs to be done in terms of mirroring content, but you'll definitely want to know about direction. You're best bet for the rest is to deal with culture and cultural validation on the server-side but it's going to depend enormously on what exactly you're trying to force, e.g. actual language validation assumes things like dictionaries and grammar checking and that would be something you probably want to look at 3rd party solutions for.
