How to write example text in a TextBox ?

Question

Hi In many of my fields I want to write some text (sort of help format watermark) type of text in my TextBox. For instance in a date textbox I want to show the format dd/mm/yyyy and when user in on the textbox it disappears & if the textbox is empty then it appears. I believe their is some simple method to do this but I can't find out. I tried [Display(Name = First Name * Prompt = First Name)] but it doesn't work. Google'd lot for the same but didn't get any answer as I want to. In Login in Email box their should be example@domain.com text. Can you help me identify what is the key to achieve this functionality. Thanks

Pankaj Kumar Choudhary · Answer

Hello @Terry if you want to add simply text in textbox then you can use place holder like TextBox Name =  myTextBox  TextChanged =  OnTextBoxTextChanged  placeholder= example@domain.com Width =  200  > TextBox > or you want to add watermark then you can use this link https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb613590%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

Khargesh Rajput · Answer

write Placeholder property in textbox Placeholder=your watermark text

Rahul Prajapat · Answer

Use placeholder for this

Jaipal Reddy · Answer

placeholder = enter xyz

Terry · Answer

Thanks Pankaj for providing example code along. Though initially while adding placeholder property in aspx I couldn't find it. But I added it and it did work. And the text placed in Placeholder doesn't even bind up with the model. Thanks.

Terry · Answer

Thanks Rahul & Khargesh You all have provided the correct answer. As Pankaj has provided with code so am accepting his reply as answer. Please. Thanks to all of you.

Terry · Answer

Thanks Akhil Don't want to add so many images.

Akhil Garg · Answer

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb613590(v=vs.110).aspx