How to lighlight link in text box

Question

I have to create some controls similar to a control TextBox. But I want this control can Highlight link as RichTextBox, Because I have problem with RichTextBox so i can't use it. How do I highlight a link in a TextBox? or I have to set each property by a line of code?

I want to display it in a TextBox as shown below:

[For WPF:Set background color of WPF Textbox in C# code](http://stackoverflow.com/a/979906/3060520) — huse.ckr, Dec 05 '16 at 08:39
First try something, then post your question here with your codes when you are having an issue. — Sachith Muhandiram, Dec 05 '16 at 08:57
In Standard Winforms you cannot do that, TextBox shows simple text. maybe you can third party controls for that. — MSL, Dec 05 '16 at 09:43
*"Because I have problem with RichTextBox so i can't use it."* What problem? Why not ask about that instead? The RichTextBox is what you want to use for displaying formatted text. There is no way to display formatted text in a regular TextBox. — Cody Gray - on strike, Dec 05 '16 at 13:54

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 05 '16 at 13:56

This is not possible. A simple TextBox control cannot be used to display formatted text.

A hyperlink is just specially formatted text: all it really does is change the foreground color to blue and the text style to underlined. TextBox controls don't allow this type of granularity. All text in the control has the same formatting applied to it.

What you would need to use is a RichTextBox control. This is specifically designed for displaying formatted text, and not only does it allow you to define arbitrary formatting for specific bits of text, but it has built-in support for detecting and highlighting hyperlinks. You say in your question that you had a "problem" with using the RichTextBox, so that is really the question that you should have been asking.

How to lighlight link in text box

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