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Watermark text

Description

Specifies the text to display as a Watermark.

You can set the Watermark text property to <FieldLabel> in order to display the control's label as the watermark.

Setting the Watermark text to replicate the textarea label
Setting the Watermark text to replicate the textarea label
The result
The result

High Order Characters (e.g. Hebrew)

Specifying watermark text for a textbox or textarea control using high order characters (for example, Hebrew characters) is possible, but requires the text for the Watermark to be entered as a unicode encoded string, with the {unicode} prefix.

For example, to set the watermark to the characters shown in the screenshot below, enter the following into the Watermark text property:

{unicode}05D0{unicode}05D1{unicode}05D2

In the screenshot shown below, the watermark is in Hebrew and it is on the right side of the control.

A watermark in Hebrew
A watermark in Hebrew

To get the text flow direction to 'right-to-left' (so that the watermark is on the right side of the control), the following Javascript was added to the client-side onRenderComplete event: 

document.body.style.direction = 'rtl';