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Displaying a Password Character

To make the text in the control display a password character, set the UseSystemPasswordChar or PasswordChar for both empty and non-empty input controls.

Option 1: Empty input control

To display a password character when the user enters text in the C1MaskedInput control:

1.   Select the C1MaskedInput control and open the Visual Studio Properties window.

2.   Click the drop-down arrow next to the UseSystemPasswordChar property and select True.

To display a password character when the user enters text in the C1MaskedInput control:

In the markup of the .aspx page insert:

 

<cc1:C1MaskedInput ID="C1MaskedInput1" runat="server"

UseSystemPasswordChar="True">

</cc1:C1MaskedInput>

This topic illustrates the following:

Run the project. When you enter text in the input control, the text in the control appears as the default password character:

 

 

 

Option 2: Non-empty input control

To set a password character using the Tasks menu:

To display a password character when the user enters text in the C1MaskedInput control, complete the following steps:

1.   Open the C1MaskedInput Tasks menu.

2.   Set the Mask property for the control. For this example set it to SSN.

3.   Enter a character, for example an asterisk (*), for the PasswordChar property.

To set a password character using .html markup:

To display a password character when the user enters text in the C1MaskedInput control, use the following markup in the .aspx page:

 

<cc1:C1MaskedInput ID="C1MaskedInput1" runat="server"

Mask="000-00-0000"

PasswordChar="*">

</cc1:C1MaskedInput>

This topic illustrates the following:

Run the project. When you enter text in the input control, the text in the control appears as an asterisk character:

 


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