Question

I have an AJAX ToolKit MaskedEditExtender control:

<asp:TextBox ID="payRateTextBox" runat="server" 
    CssClass="valueControl"></asp:TextBox>

<asp:MaskedEditExtender ID="payRateMaskedEditExtender" runat="server" 
    AcceptNegative="Left" InputDirection="RightToLeft" 
    Mask="999.99" MaskType="Number" 
    TargetControlID="payRateTextBox"  />

Empty text looks like the following when it gets focus:

____.__

The problem is the extender dosent allow user to enter a 0 as the first entered character in the first digit at the left of the point (Where the X resides) ..

___X.___

Here is a demonstration.

Suggestions are apprectiated ..

Answer 1

I know I cant earn my own bounty, so, my answer here is just for suggesting a solution for the problem.

The problem can be solved simply by eliminating the assigning of the InputDirection property !! I guess it is not appropriate to use it while using float point anyway ..

Of course if I knew that at first place I would save a 50 reputations 😉