How to: Get and Set Values in TextBox Web Server Controls

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You can get or set the value of a TextBox control at run time.

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To get or set values in the TextBox control

  • Get or set the value of the control's Text property.

    The following code example shows how you can read the value of one TextBox control called TextBox1 and use it to set the value of another, TextBox2.

    Protected Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, _
        ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Textbox2.Text = Server.HtmlEncode(TextBox1.Text)
End Sub

    protected void Button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
TextBox2.Text = Server.HtmlEncode(TextBox1.Text);
}

See Also

Reference

TextBox Web Server Control Overview