How to set the Location of the TextBox in C#?
In Windows forms, TextBox plays an important role. With the help of TextBox, the user can enter data in the application, it can be of a single line or of multiple lines. In TextBox, you are allowed to set the coordinates of the upper-left corner of the TextBox control relative to the upper-left corner of its container with the help of Location property. In Windows form, you can set this property in two different ways:
1. Design-Time: It is the simplest way to set the Location property of the TextBox as shown in the following steps:
- Step 1: Create a windows form as shown in the below image:
Visual Studio -> File -> New -> Project -> WindowsFormApp - Step 2: Drag the TextBox control from the ToolBox and Drop it on the windows form. You can place TextBox anywhere on the windows form according to your need. As shown in the below image:
- Step 3: After drag and drop you will go to the properties of the TextBox control to set the Location property of the TextBox. As shown in the below image:
Output:
2. Run-Time: It is a little bit trickier than the above method. In this method, you can set the Location property of the TextBox programmatically with the help of given syntax:
public System.Drawing.Point Location { get; set; }
Here, Point is used to represent the upper-left corner of the control relative to the upper-left corner of its container. Following steps are used to set the Location property of the TextBox:
- Step 1 : Create a textbox using the TextBox() constructor provided by the TextBox class.
// Creating textbox TextBox Mytextbox = new TextBox();
- Step 2 : After creating TextBox, set the Location property of the TextBox provided by the TextBox class.
// Set Location property Mytextbox1.Location = new Point(187, 51);
- Step 3 : And last add this textbox control to from using Add() method.
// Add this textbox to form this.Controls.Add(Mytextbox1);
Example:
using
System;
using
System.Collections.Generic;
using
System.ComponentModel;
using
System.Data;
using
System.Drawing;
using
System.Linq;
using
System.Text;
using
System.Threading.Tasks;
using
System.Windows.Forms;
namespace
my {
public
partial
class
Form1 : Form {
public
Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private
void
Form1_Load(
object
sender, EventArgs e)
{
// Creating and setting the properties of Lable1
Label Mylablel1 =
new
Label();
Mylablel1.Location =
new
Point(96, 54);
Mylablel1.Text =
"Enter Name"
;
Mylablel1.AutoSize =
true
;
Mylablel1.BackColor = Color.LightGray;
// Add this label to form
this
.Controls.Add(Mylablel1);
// Creating and setting the properties of TextBox1
TextBox Mytextbox1 =
new
TextBox();
Mytextbox1.Location =
new
Point(187, 51);
Mytextbox1.BackColor = Color.LightGray;
Mytextbox1.AutoSize =
true
;
Mytextbox1.Name =
"text_box1"
;
Mytextbox1.Margin =
new
Padding(5, 5, 5, 5);
// Add this textbox to form
this
.Controls.Add(Mytextbox1);
// Creating and setting the properties of Lable1
Label Mylablel2 =
new
Label();
Mylablel2.Location =
new
Point(96, 102);
Mylablel2.Text =
"Enter Area"
;
Mylablel2.AutoSize =
true
;
Mylablel2.BackColor = Color.LightGray;
// Add this label to form
this
.Controls.Add(Mylablel2);
// Creating and setting the properties of TextBox2
TextBox Mytextbox2 =
new
TextBox();
Mytextbox2.Location =
new
Point(187, 99);
Mytextbox2.BackColor = Color.LightGray;
Mytextbox2.AutoSize =
true
;
Mytextbox2.Name =
"text_box2"
;
// Add this textbox to form
this
.Controls.Add(Mytextbox2);
}
}
}
Output: