How to design a textbox that is multiline and autocomplete any text entered in it

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i have a textbox that auto complete text from a database, but what it does is just auto completing the first word i entered.now what i want is that, when i type a word it autocomplete it,and if i give a space and type another word, it also auto complete the next word. e.g i type a list of name "john, james, kate", i want every of the word to autocomplete as i am typing them in the textbox.tanx for ur help

Posted 24-Sep-12 14:32pm

Ese ochuko

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Ravi Bhavnani · Answer 1 · 2012-09-24T14:56:00

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Unfortunately, a standard multi-line textbox doesn't support autocomplete. You may want to consider using a RichTextBox instead. See this[^] article for step-by-step instructions.

Posted 24-Sep-12 14:56pm

Ravi Bhavnani