Text

ComboBox control (Style property set to 0 [Dropdown Combo] or to 1 [Simple Combo]) and TextBox control — returns or sets the text contained in the edit area.
ComboBox control (Style property set to 2 [Dropdown List]) and ListBox control — returns the selected item in the list box; the value returned is always equivalent to the value returned by the expression List(ListIndex). Read-only at design time; read-only at run time.

Syntax

object.Text [= string]

The parts of the Text property syntax are described in the following table.

Part	Description
object	An object expression that evaluates to an object.
string	A string expression specifying text.

Remarks

At design time only, the defaults for the Text property are:

ComboBox and TextBox controls — the control's Name property.
ListBox control — a zero-length string ("").

For a ComboBox with the Style property set to 0 (Dropdown Combo) or to 1 (Simple Combo) or for a TextBox, this property is useful for reading the actual string contained in the edit area of the control. For a ComboBox or ListBox control with the Style property set to 2 (Dropdown List), you can use the Text property to determine the currently selected item.

The Text setting for a TextBox control is limited to 2048 characters unless the MultiLine property is True, in which case the limit is about 32K.