HtmlWindow::Prompt Method (String^, String^)

 

Shows a dialog box that displays a message and a text box to the user.

Namespace:   System.Windows.Forms
Assembly:  System.Windows.Forms (in System.Windows.Forms.dll)

public:
String^ Prompt(
	String^ message,
	String^ defaultInputValue
)

Parameters

message
Type: System::String^

The message to display to the user.

defaultInputValue
Type: System::String^

The default value displayed in the text box.

Return Value

Type: System::String^

A String representing the text entered by the user.

Prompt provides a quick, easy way to obtain simple text input from the user.

Although Prompt accepts Unicode text as input, the Internet Explorer script prompt will not display non-Latin language text appropriately on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME or Windows NT due to operating system limitations. For more information, see INFO: Internet Explorer Script Prompts and MBCS/Unicode.

.NET Framework
Available since 2.0
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