.net capitalising Names in textboxes

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Is there a way to capitalize the first letters of a name when inputting it into the textbox?

For example, when one types john doe, the textbox should display John Doe.

I know it can be done in the c# code but just wondering if there is an easier way through attributes or regex.

may also interesting for http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1026069/capitalize-the-first-letter-of-string-in-javascript — Aristos, Jun 06 '12 at 12:32

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 06 '12 at 12:27

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Shouldn't be hard to do yourself if you want, other than that there's a ToTitleCase() that would probably serve your purposes.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.textinfo.totitlecase(v=vs.90).aspx

answered Jun 06 '12 at 12:27

Ian Jacobs

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '12 at 12:42

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You can do this in the markup with CSS - ff you add the CSS attribute text-transform to your textbox with a value of capitalize, it will make the first character of each word upper case e.g.

<asp:textbox runat="server" id="NameTextBox" style="text-transform:capitalize;" />

No code required :-)

answered Jun 06 '12 at 12:42

PhilPursglove

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That's the one. I knew I've used that before :). Thanks – sd_dracula Jun 06 '12 at 12:47

Nikhil Agrawal · Answer 3 · 2012-06-06T12:33:33.707

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Capitalize it using ToTitleCase() available in System.Globalization Namespace.

edited Jun 06 '12 at 12:33

answered Jun 06 '12 at 12:28

Nikhil Agrawal

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