How to highlight the Textbox red in colour

Question

Hi all,
       I have a requirement to highlight the textbox (border) red in color. Any body having idea on this, how to do?
         I know to do this via
         wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportContextAttributeMessage(
     wdContext.currentContextElement(),                    wdContext.getNodeInfo().getAttribute("name"),
     IMessageTestMsgPoolComp.MY__AGE_ERROR,arg,true);
Where arg is the Object Array.
     But for this i will get an error message. I don't want to display any error message. I just want to highlight some textboxes in the view.
Thanks in Advance,
VJR.

Answer 1

Hi VJR,
I am not sure if you can get exactly red color border, but there is a way you can high light the text field.
- Change the <b>parent container Layout</b> for Input Field to Matrix Layout.
- Now if you check LayoutData properties of Input Field you can see <b>Cell Back ground design</b> property. You can use various designs which high lights the field.
If you want to acheive this dynamically then you can write the following code in wdModifyView().
    IWDInputField inField = (IWDInputField)view.getElement("my_input");  
   IWDMatrixData matrixData = (IWDMatrixData)inField.getLayoutData();
   matrixData.setCellBackgroundDesign(WDCellBackgroundDesign.BORDER);
Regards
Abhilash