Place cusor after text in ASP.NET Textbox

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If it was Windows Forms, I could have used

textbox1.Select(textbox1.Text.Length,0);

How can I achieve this in C#, for an ASP.Net Textbox. I would like to do this only in C#

If you can get c# running in the client-browser you earn a medal. You can't from c# alone — lboshuizen, Nov 03 '13 at 14:19
And no, you can't do this in ONLY c#. A text box is a client-side object, c# is server side. — gunr2171, Nov 03 '13 at 14:19
How come, we have option to set focus from server side, but not place a cursor. I guess, JS is the only way. Its just that, for the life of me, am unable to send the textbox ID to the js function.http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19543075/send-asp-net-control-id-to-a-javascript-function — Ruby, Nov 03 '13 at 14:43

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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You must register appropriate javascript script to run on the page load (or any other way to run javascript). You can not achieve such behaviour on server side.

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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This one worked for me (works in chrome and IE)

<asp:TextBox ID="txtBranch" runat="server" onfocus="this.value=this.value;">
</asp:TextBox>

Courtesy: Use JavaScript to place cursor at end of text in text input element

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 03 '13 at 18:23

If I understand your question correctly, you can call Focus method from code behind.

It basically places a cursor inside TextBox using JavaScript, when the page is loated at client side.

<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="textbox1"></asp:TextBox>

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    textbox1.Focus();
}

Place cusor after text in ASP.NET Textbox

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