How can I force input to uppercase in an ASP.NET textbox?

Question

I'm writing an ASP.NET application. I have a textbox on a webform, and I want to force whatever the user types to upper case. I'd like to do this on the front end. You should also note that there is a validation control on this textbox, so I want to make sure the solution doesn't interfere with the ASP.NET validation.

Clarification: It appears that the CSS text transform makes the user input appear in uppercase. However, under the hood, it's still lower case as the validation control fails. You see, my validation control checks to see if a valid state code is entered, however the regular expression I'm using only works with uppercase characters.

Answer 1

Why not use a combination of the CSS and backend? Use:

style='text-transform:uppercase' 

on the TextBox, and in your codebehind use:

Textbox.Value.ToUpper();

You can also easily change your regex on the validator to use lowercase and uppercase letters. That's probably the easier solution than forcing uppercase on them.

Answer 2

Use a CSS style on the text box. Your CSS should be something like this:

.uppercase
{
    text-transform: uppercase;
}

<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" Text="" CssClass="uppercase"></asp:TextBox>;

Answer 3

**I would do like:
<asp:TextBox ID="txtName" onkeyup="this.value=this.value.toUpperCase()" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>**

Answer 4

Okay, after testing, here is a better, cleaner solution.

$('#FirstName').bind('keyup', function () {

    // Get the current value of the contents within the text box
    var val = $('#FirstName').val().toUpperCase();

    // Reset the current value to the Upper Case Value
    $('#FirstName').val(val);

});

Answer 5

You can intercept the key press events, cancel the lowercase ones, and append their uppercase versions to the input:

window.onload = function () {
    var input = document.getElementById("test");

    input.onkeypress = function () {
        // So that things work both on Firefox and Internet Explorer.
        var evt = arguments[0] || event;
        var char = String.fromCharCode(evt.which || evt.keyCode);

        // Is it a lowercase character?
        if (/[a-z]/.test(char)) {
            // Append its uppercase version
            input.value += char.toUpperCase();

            // Cancel the original event
            evt.cancelBubble = true;
            return false;
        }
    }
};

This works in both Firefox and Internet Explorer. You can see it in action here.

Answer 6

<!-- Script by hscripts.com -->
<script language=javascript>
    function upper(ustr)
    {
        var str=ustr.value;
        ustr.value=str.toUpperCase();
    }

    function lower(ustr)
    {
        var str=ustr.value;
        ustr.value=str.toLowerCase();
    }
</script>

<form>
    Type Lower-case Letters<textarea name="address" onkeyup="upper(this)"></textarea>
</form>

<form>
    Type Upper-case Letters<textarea name="address" onkeyup="lower(this)"></textarea>
</form>

Answer 7

I use a simple one inline statement

<asp:TextBox ID="txtLocatorName" runat="server"
 style="text-transform:uppercase" CssClass="textbox"  
 TabIndex="1">
</asp:TextBox>

If you don't want to use css classes you can just use inline style statement.(This one just visibly make uppercase) :)

On Server side use

string UCstring = txtName.Text.ToUpper();

Answer 8

text-transform CSS property specifies how to capitalize an element's text. It can be used to make text appear in all-uppercase or all-lowercase

CssClass

WebControl.CssClass Property

you can learn more about it - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/text-transform

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.webcontrol.cssclass(v=vs.110).aspx

---

use Style="text-transform: uppercase;" or CssClass="upper"

Answer 9

I would do this using jQuery.

<script src="Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $("#txt").keydown(function(e) {
            if (e.keyCode >= 65 & e.keyCode <= 90) {
                val1 = $("#txt").val();
                $("#txt").val(val1 + String.fromCharCode(e.keyCode));
                return false;
            }
        });
    });
</script>

You must have the jQuery library in the /script folder.

Answer 10

 style='text-transform:uppercase'

Answer 11

I just did something similar today. Here is the modified version:

<asp:TextBox ID="txtInput" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
<script type="text/javascript">
    function setFormat() {
        var inp = document.getElementById('ctl00_MainContent_txtInput');
        var x = inp.value;
        inp.value = x.toUpperCase();
    }

    var inp = document.getElementById('ctl00_MainContent_txtInput');
    inp.onblur = function(evt) {
        setFormat();
    };
</script>

Basically, the script attaches an event that fires when the text box loses focus.

Answer 12

I have done some analysis about this issue on four popular browser versions.

1. the style tag simple displays the characters in uppercase but, the control value still remains as lowercase
2. the keypress functionality using the char code displayed above is a bit worry some as in firefox chrome and safari it disables the feature to Ctrl + V into the control.
3. the other issue with using character level to upper case is also not translating the whole string to upper case.

4. the answer I found is to implement this on keyup in conjunction with the style tag.

   <-- form name="frmTest" -->
   <-- input type="text" size=100 class="ucasetext" name="textBoxUCase" id="textBoxUCase" -->
   <-- /form -->
   
   window.onload = function() {
       var input = document.frmTest.textBoxUCase;
       input.onkeyup = function() {
           input.value = input.value.toUpperCase();
       }
   };
   

Answer 13

Set the style on the textbox as text-transform: uppercase?

Answer 14

CSS could be of help here.

style="text-transform: uppercase";"

does this help?

Answer 15

Use the text-transform CSS for the front-end and then use the toUpper method on your string server-side before you validate.

Answer 16

here is a solution that worked for me.

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/bestupper

You have to get the JavaScript from http://plugins.jquery.com/files/jquery.bestupper.min.js.txt and there you go.

Works like a charm!

Answer 17

  <telerik:RadTextBox ID="txtCityName" runat="server" MaxLength="50" Width="200px"
                            Style="text-transform: uppercase;">

Answer 18

JavaScript has the "toUpperCase()" function of a string.

So, something along these lines:

function makeUpperCase(this)
{
    this.value = this.value.toUpperCase();
}

Answer 19

     $().ready(docReady);

     function docReady() {

            $("#myTextbox").focusout(uCaseMe);
     }

     function uCaseMe() {

            var val = $(this).val().toUpperCase();

            // Reset the current value to the Upper Case Value
            $(this).val(val);
        }

This is a reusable approach. Any number of textboxes can be done this way w/o naming them. A page wide solution could be achieved by changing the selector in docReady.

My example uses lost focus, the question did not specify as they type. You could trigger on change if thats important in your scenario.

Answer 20

I realize it is a bit late, but I couldn't find a good answer that worked with ASP.NET AJAX, so I fixed the code above:

function ToUpper() {
        // So that things work both on FF and IE
        var evt = arguments[0] || event;
        var char = String.fromCharCode(evt.which || evt.keyCode);

        // Is it a lowercase character?
        if (/[a-z]/.test(char)) {
            // convert to uppercase version
            if (evt.which) {
                evt.which = char.toUpperCase().charCodeAt(0);
            }
            else {
                evt.keyCode = char.toUpperCase().charCodeAt(0);
            }
        }

        return true;
    }

Used like so:

       <asp:TextBox ID="txtAddManager" onKeyPress="ToUpper()" runat="server" 
             Width="84px" Font-Names="Courier New"></asp:TextBox>

Answer 21

Minimum 8 characters at least 1 Alphabet and 1 Number <asp:TextBox ID="txtPolicy1" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="Regex1" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtPolicy1" ValidationExpression="^(?=.[A-Za-z])(?=.\d)[A-Za-z\d]{8,}$" ErrorMessage="Password must contain: Minimum 8 characters atleast 1 Alphabet and 1 Number" ForeColor="Red" />

Valid Password Examples: pass1234 OR PaSs1234 OR PASS1234

Minimum 8 characters at least 1 Alphabet, 1 Number and 1 Special Character <asp:TextBox ID="txtPolicy2" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="Regex2" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtPolicy2" ValidationExpression="^(?=.[A-Za-z])(?=.\d)(?=.[$@$!%#?&])[A-Za-z\d$@$!%*#?&]{8,}$" ErrorMessage="Minimum 8 characters atleast 1 Alphabet, 1 Number and 1 Special Character" ForeColor="Red" />

Valid Password Examples: pass@123 OR PaSS#123 OR PASS@123

Minimum 8 characters at least 1 Uppercase Alphabet, 1 Lowercase Alphabet and 1 Number <asp:TextBox ID="txtPolicy3" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="Regex3" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtPolicy3" ValidationExpression="^(?=.[a-z])(?=.[A-Z])(?=.*\d)[a-zA-Z\d]{8,}$" ErrorMessage="Password must contain: Minimum 8 characters atleast 1 UpperCase Alphabet, 1 LowerCase Alphabet and 1 Number" ForeColor="Red" />

Valid Password Examples: PaSs1234 OR pASS1234

Minimum 8 characters at least 1 Uppercase Alphabet, 1 Lowercase Alphabet, 1 Number and 1 Special Character

<asp:TextBox ID="txtPolicy4" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="Regex4" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtPolicy4" ValidationExpression="^(?=.[a-z])(?=.[A-Z])(?=.\d)(?=.[$@$!%?&])[A-Za-z\d$@$!%?&]{8,}" ErrorMessage="Password must contain: Minimum 8 characters atleast 1 UpperCase Alphabet, 1 LowerCase Alphabet, 1 Number and 1 Special Character" ForeColor="Red" />

Valid Password Examples: PaSs@123 OR pAss@123

Minimum 8 and Maximum 10 characters at least 1 Uppercase Alphabet, 1 Lowercase Alphabet, 1 Number and 1 Special Character

<asp:TextBox ID="txtPolicy5" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="Regex5" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtPolicy5" ValidationExpression="^(?=.[a-z])(?=.[A-Z])(?=.\d)(?=.[$@$!%?&])[A-Za-z\d$@$!%?&]{8,10}" ErrorMessage="Password must contain: Minimum 8 and Maximum 10 characters atleast 1 UpperCase Alphabet, 1 LowerCase Alphabet, 1 Number and 1 Special Character" ForeColor="Red" />

Valid Password Examples: PaSs@123