I've a field in a database, this field has a maximum length, and I want to set a textbox to the appropriate width. I'm creating the textboxes in runtime. How can I calculate the value of width property?
For example, if I have a field nvarchar(5) named IDClient, and the font-Size is 13, I want to create a texbox with a width enough to write 5 chars.
Maybe should use TextRenderer.MeasureText(string, font).
Here a little sample which should might help you
//Get this value from somewhere...
TextBox textBox = new TextBox();
int maxWidth = 10;
int extraSpace = 3;
//Create sample string
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(maxWidth);
sb.Append('w', maxWidth);
//Measure text
Size size = TextRenderer.MeasureText(sb.ToString(), textBox.Font);
//Set width of TextBox to needed width
textBox.Width = size.Width + extraSpace;
Specify
input type='text' size='5' width='w' ........>
You can calculate w=num_characters * k.
Where k is constant. First keep k = 15.
And then do hit and trial until u find the best fit.