Working With SfMaskedEdit

18 Feb 20254 minutes to read

This section explains about accessing SfMaskedEdit properties and events associated with it.

Masking the Input

The Mask property may contain literals and special mask characters. You can use the back-slash character to escape any special mask characters so that they are displayed as literals. Mask can be set based on MaskType elements

For Masking the input set MaskType and Mask property as follows:

Type	MaskType	Mask
Date	Simple	00/00/0000
Phone	Regular	(d{3})-\d{3}-\d{4}
Email	RegEx	[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,3}

Simple Mask

If MaskType set as Simple, Mask can be created using Simple Mask Elements

Example: Date

Mask = “00/00/0000”;

In the above example, we can create Mask for Date (“dd/mm/yyyy”) format. It will accept only digits. So that element ‘0’ is used and the literal ‘/’ is used.

XAML

<Input:SfMaskedEdit MaskType="Simple" Mask="00/00/0000" Width="255" Height="46"/>

C#

SfMaskedEdit maskededit = new SfMaskedEdit();
maskededit.MaskType=MaskType.Simple;
maskedEdit.Mask="00/00/0000";

Regular Mask

If MaskType set as Regular, Mask can be created using Regular Mask Elements

Example: Phone Number

Mask = “(d{3})-\d{3}-\d{4}”

In the above example, we can create a mask for Phone Number(“(123)-456-7890”). It will accept only digits. So that element ‘d’ is used. Mobile Number has fixed size. So that element ‘{}’ is used and the literal ‘()’ and ‘-‘ is used.

XAML

<Input:SfMaskedEdit MaskType="Regular" Mask="(\d{0,3})\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{2}" Width="255" Height="46"/>

C#

SfMaskedEdit maskededit = new SfMaskedEdit();
maskededit.MaskType = MaskType.Regular;
maskedEdit.Mask = "(\d{0,3})\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{2}";

RegEx Mask

If MaskType set as RegEx, Mask can be created using RegEx Mask Elements

Example : Email ID

Mask =”[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9]+.[A-Za-z]{2,3}”

In the above example, we can create a mask for Mail ID. It will accept both alphabets and digits. So that element A-Z a-z 0-9 is used. For accepting any number of characters element ‘[ ]’ is used and the literal ‘@’ and ‘.’ is used.

XAML

<Input:SfMaskedEdit MaskType="RegEx" Mask="[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9]+.[A-Za-z]{2,3}" Width="255" Height="46"/>

C#

SfMaskedEdit maskededit = new SfMaskedEdit();
maskededit.MaskType = MaskType.RegEx;
maskedEdit.Mask = "[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9]+.[A-Za-z]{2,3}";

Binding Value

The SfMaskedEdit control displays the value that can be set using the Value property:

Set the Value property directly

The following example shows how to set the Value directly in SfMaskedEdit

XAML

<Input:SfMaskedEdit MaskType="Simple" Mask="00/00/0000"  Value="14/11/2014" Width="255" Height="46"/>

C#

SfMaskedEdit maskededit = new SfMaskedEdit();
maskededit.MaskType = MaskType.Simple;
maskedEdit.Mask = "00/00/0000";
maskedEdit.Value = "14/11/2014";

Set the value property through binding

The following example shows Set the value property in ComboBox items to bind the Value property of the control

XAML

<Input:SfMaskedEdit MaskType="Simple" Mask="00/00/0000"  Value="{Binding ElementName=comboBox, Path=Text}"  Width="255" Height="46"/>

ValueChanged event

Occurs when the value of the Value property is changed by either entering the valid input character or setting the value to the Value property through XAML or C# code. The event arguments are of type ValueChangedEventArgs and expose the following property:

Your valid input character is updated to Value property based on the ValidationMode property.
Refer to this link to know more about the ValidationMode property of SfMaskedEdit control.

Example

XAML

<Input:SfMaskedEdit MaskType="Simple" Mask="00/00/0000"  Value="14/11/2014" Width="255" Height="46" ValueChanged="sfMaskedEdit_ValueChanged"/>

C#

SfMaskedEdit maskededit = new SfMaskedEdit();	
maskededit.ValueChanged += SfMaskedEdit_ValueChanged;

private void SfMaskedEdit_ValueChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   MessageBox.Show("Value changed");
}

Watermark

The watermark will prompt you with instructions or important information when it is not on focus and any valid characters are not entered. The Watermark property of SfMaskedEdit is used to set the watermark text for the control.

Example

XAML

<Input:SfMaskedEdit  MaskType="Simple" Mask="00/00/0000" Watermark="Type here" Width="255" Height="46"/>

C#

SfMaskedEdit maskededit = new SfMaskedEdit();
maskededit.MaskType = MaskType.Simple;
maskedEdit.Mask = "00/00/0000";
maskedEdit.Watermark = "Type here";