Text box and Labels -Basic Web Controls

     Text box controls are typically used to accept input from the user. A text box control can accept one or more lines to text depending upon the setting of the Text Mode attribute.

      Label controls provide an easy way to display text which can be changed from one execution of a page to the next. If you want to display a text that does not change, you use the literal text.

Basic syntax for text controls:

   <asp:text box Id:"Txtstate" runat="server"></asp:text box>

Common Properties of the Text Box and Labels:

Property	Description
Text Mode	Specifies the type of text box. SingleLine creates a standard text box, MultiLIne creates a text box that accepts more than one line of text and the Password causes the characters that are entered to be masked. The default is SingleLine.
Text	The text content of the text box
MaxLength	The maximum number of characters that can be entered into the text box.
Wrap	It determines whether or not text wraps automatically for multi-line text box; default is true.
Read-only	Determines whether the user can change the text in the box; default is false, i.e., the user can change the text.
Columns	The width of the text box in characters. The actual width is determined based on the font that's used for the text entry
Rows	The height of a multi-line text box in lines. The default value is 0, means a single line text box.

         The mostly used attribute for a label control is 'Text', which implies the text displayed on the label.