TextBox shows as ListBox on clients PC

[Kav]

As the title states, on my development PC there is a textbox which allways
displays as a textbox. However on the clients PC it is showing previous
entries he has made to the TextBox as a ListBox.

Now this sounds to me like an Internet Explorer setting needs changing but
then I thought how do you go about making sure a TextBox allways displays as
a Textbox regardless of the users IE settings?

For example you wouldn't want a login textbox to display a list of previous
user ids that had logged in on a particular PC.

Thanks
Rich.

[Marc Jennings]

AFAIK, what you are saying is not possible in the HTML specification.
It sounds like the "Listbox" you are talking about it IE functionality
for remembering form values making it appear that the control is a
listbox. To check... Does the list appear when the user starts
typing only, or is there a drop-down arrow at the side of the control?

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:50:26 GMT, "Kav" <[e-mail]> wrote:

As the title states, on my development PC there is a textbox which allways
displays as a textbox. However on the clients PC it is showing previous
entries he has made to the TextBox as a ListBox.

Now this sounds to me like an Internet Explorer setting needs changing but
then I thought how do you go about making sure a TextBox allways displays as
a Textbox regardless of the users IE settings?

For example you wouldn't want a login textbox to display a list of previous
user ids that had logged in on a particular PC.

Thanks
Rich.

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

Weird, and it has nothing to do with IE settings, post the code in question
both the aspx as the .cs , most probably you are creating a dynamic control.
or you have some script in the page.

cheers,

--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation

"Kav" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
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As the title states, on my development PC there is a textbox which allways
displays as a textbox. However on the clients PC it is showing previous
entries he has made to the TextBox as a ListBox.

Now this sounds to me like an Internet Explorer setting needs changing but
then I thought how do you go about making sure a TextBox allways displays
as a Textbox regardless of the users IE settings?

For example you wouldn't want a login textbox to display a list of
previous user ids that had logged in on a particular PC.

Thanks
Rich.

[Kav]

"Marc Jennings" <Ma**********@community.nospam> wrote in message
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AFAIK, what you are saying is not possible in the HTML specification.
It sounds like the "Listbox" you are talking about it IE functionality
for remembering form values making it appear that the control is a
listbox. To check... Does the list appear when the user starts
typing only, or is there a drop-down arrow at the side of the control?

It appears when he starts typing so it looks like it's the IE functionality
causing the problem.

Thinking about it this makes sense as the forms I use online on my pc
remember user ids unless I say not to. I'll tell him to switch it off.

Thanks for your advice.
Rich.

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

Humm, there is some features like that in IE, now I do NOT remember it in a
listbox, only in textboxes.
Maybe he has some spyware/utility installed that has some kind of
autocomplete feature
cheers,

--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation

"Kav" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
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"Marc Jennings" <Ma**********@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:bp********************************@4ax.com...

AFAIK, what you are saying is not possible in the HTML specification.
It sounds like the "Listbox" you are talking about it IE functionality
for remembering form values making it appear that the control is a
listbox. To check... Does the list appear when the user starts
typing only, or is there a drop-down arrow at the side of the control?

It appears when he starts typing so it looks like it's the IE
functionality causing the problem.

Thinking about it this makes sense as the forms I use online on my pc
remember user ids unless I say not to. I'll tell him to switch it off.

Thanks for your advice.
Rich.