Diff Between Textbox.value and Textbox.Text

Vasanth Natarajan

Diff Between Textbox.value and Textbox.Text?

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Manas Mohapatra10y ago
In .net you declare like:

it renders like:

So value is a htmlproperty and Text is server side property which renders as tvaluein browser.
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Soumalya Das10y ago
if you use html textbox then use value,if it is serverside asp text box thn use text properties
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Vinay Singh10y ago
When you add properties that don't exists in the TextBox class, asp.net will render those properties to the resulting html. So
```
 runat="server" ID="Name" text="bbbb" mycustomproperty="hi" />
```
Will render to something like this
```
 type="text" value="bbbb" id="..." name="..." mycustomproperty="hi"/>
```
If you omit the TextBox's Text property and write the value property, then the value property will be rendered.
```
 runat="server" ID="Name" value="aaaa" />
```
To
```
 type="text" value="aaaa" id="..." name="..."/>
```
TextBox doesn't has a Value property. When the TextBox instance is created, the HTML value property will be assigned to the Text property, and that's why you access the Text property it has the "aaaa" value.
Summary: Don't use value property when you use ASP.NET controls. Use the controls specific properties.
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Jisny Av10y ago
If we are using we give value in Text attribute.
If we are using we give value in value attribute
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Rajeesh Menoth10y ago
Hi,

Check this reference :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19593600/value-and-text-properties-in-asp-net-textbox-value-gets-overwritten-by-text

http://www.baldyweb.com/ValueText.htm
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