Validate the user input

You can add validation of the user input in textboxes and paragraph boxes. For example, you can make required that the user enters an email address in a certain textbox.

To do this, perform the following:

1. In the lower-right corner of the Textbox or the Paragraph box widgets, click Advanced button.
2. Under ValidatorDefinition, click ValidatorDefinition button.
3. In input field ExpectedFormat, enter one of the following:
   

   Value	Purpose
   None	none by default
   AlphaNumeric	Validates alphanumeric input
   Currency	Validates currency
   EmailAddress	Validates email addresses
   Integer	Validates integers
   InternetUrl	Validates internet URLs
   NonAlphaNumeric	Validates non-alphanumeric input
   Numeric	Validates numbers
   Percentage	Validates percentages
   USSocialSecurityNumber	Validates US social security numbers
   USZipCode	Validates US zip codes
   Custom	Validates against custom regular expression

4. You can also use this section to enter a custom error message.
   For example, if you are validating that the user entered an email address, you can also enter a custom error message in EmailAddressViolationMessage field.
5. Click Save to return to the Simple editing mode of the widget.