Position the cursor at the end of any text field

Question

I have a text box with a string displayed in it. To move the cursor to the text box that I am already doing

txtbox.Focus(); 

But how do I get the cursor at the end of a line in a text box?

Answer 1

You can control the cursor position (and selection) using the txtbox.SelectionStart and txtbox.SelectionLength . If you want the carriage to end, try this:

 txtbox.SelectionStart = txtbox.Text.Length -1 // add some logic if length is 0 txtbox.SelectionLength = 0 

For WPF, see this post .

Answer 2

There are several options:

 txtBox.Focus(); txtBox.SelectionStart = txtBox.Text.Length; 

OR

 txtBox.Focus(); txtBox.CaretIndex = txtBox.Text.Length; 

OR

 txtBox.Focus(); txtBox.Select(txtBox.Text.Length, 0); 

Answer 3

You can set the carriage position using TextBox.CaretIndex . If you only need to position the cursor at the end, you can simply pass the length of the string, for example:

 txtBox.CaretIndex=txtBox.Text.Length; 

You need to set the carriage index in length, not in length-1, because this will put the carriage in front of the last character.

Answer 4

Try as shown below ... this will help you ...

For some time, Window Form Focus() is not working properly. Therefore, you can use Select() to focus the text field.

 txtbox.Select(); // to Set Focus txtbox.Select(txtbox.Text.Length, 0); //to set cursor at the end of textbox