Question

I am assigning a value to .Text of a textbox retrieved from a database in Page_Load() but no characters are shown in the textbox after doing this. The value is indeed there when I try to read from it after the assignment.

I would like to present some characters to the user even though they are the “dotted” password characters so they know a password has been entered here. Is it possible to do this?

Answer 1

TextBox myTextBox = (TextBox)ControlTextBox;
string pwVal = myTextBox.Text;
myTextBox.Attributes.Add("value", "*******");

Simply put, get a reference to your Textbox, save the password to a value elsewhere in your code, and set the value attribute (since the controls are rendered as an HTML form element anyway) to whatever you want.