Question

I am using/abusing CSS classes and custom html attributes to provide default data to a set of textboxes. The code-front for this looks like the following (with some supporting javascript to handle checking/setting the default data when the field is blank):

<asp:TextBox ID="TXT_LenderName" class='defaultText' data-default='Institution Name' runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

This works.

I am working on the code-behind to process this form. I would like to be able to compare the value of the TXT_LenderName.Text to the value of the data-default attribute, but I haven’t been able to find a way to get the value of a custom html attribute. Suggestions?

Answer 1

This is tested and worked

string customAttrDataDefault = TXT_LenderName.Attributes["data-default"];
txtpassword.Attributes.Add("value","Password value");