controlling cursor after clicking on button at the end of the text entered in textbox in asp.net

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please help me. In my code on button click i add some string in textbox but after adding string it looses the focus or it not appears in that textbox. i want cursor after the text in the textbox. i used formview. i used txt.focus(); but it sets at the start of the text.

Posted 18-Jun-12 3:38am

Vaishali P. Patil

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Vaishali P. Patil 19-Jun-12 1:03am

Thanks, i used this but sets cursor at the start of the text not end and i also used bellow <script type="text/javascript">
function SetCursorToTextEnd(textControlID)
{
var text = document.getElementById(textControlID);
if (text != null && text.value.length > 0)
{
if (text.createTextRange)
{
var FieldRange = text.createTextRange();
FieldRange.moveStart('character', text.value.length);
FieldRange.collapse();
FieldRange.select();
}
}
}
</script>

but it shows me error textControlID does not exist in the current context

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Sandeep Mewara · Answer 1 · 2012-06-18T04:08:00

Solution 1

Doing something like this should do:

C#

txt.focus();
txt.value = txt.value;

Here, have a look at similar discussions:
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Posted 18-Jun-12 4:08am

Sandeep Mewara