Dmitry,

I don't do much Web stuff, mainly WinForms, but ... how about for your Equipment Room you use a label instead of a TextBox? I would think that this would work just fine, unless you sometimes allow the user to enter a new Equipment Room (thus necessitating the use of a TextBox) ...

~~Bonnie


>Hi everybody,
>
>I was wondering if anyone can suggest a solution to the following problem:
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>Web form has the following textboxes:
>Equipment ID
>Equipment Room
>
>EquipemntID textbox has OnTextChanged method. When user enters ID, the code in OnTextChanged finds a record in Equipment file and enters text in the Equipment Room, as follows:
>
>

>Room.Text  = drEQ_FILE["loc_room"].ToString()
>

>
>The problem is that user then cannot change the entry in the Equipment Room textbox. As if the textbox is readonly. However, if user highlights the entire entry in the Equipment Room textbox (by dragging mouse left to right), entry can be changed?
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>Any ideas/suggestions why it works that way?
>
>Thank you