Web Control TextBox Selection during PreRender

[Paul C.]

Hi folks. I have a WebControl TextBox which I would like to force to select
all it's text during PreRender. My problem is that I don't know how to do
this. I already have a reference to the control by using FindControl(), but
I don't see any method or property I can use to set the selection range. I
am looking for something like SelectionStart() and SelectionLength().

The WinForms TextBox has these methods, but the Web Forms does not. Any
ideas on how to do this?

 

[Eliyahu Goldin]

Paul,

You can do it on client side. Handle body onload event and call select()
method for the <input type=text...> element representing the textbox.

Eliyahu

 

[Paul C.]

Eliyahu,

Thank you. I will try it this route.

Paul C.

Paul,

You can do it on client side. Handle body onload event and call select()
method for the <input type=text...> element representing the textbox.

Eliyahu