Rich Text Box Select First Character

Question

Is there a way in C# to select the first character of the text in a paragraph in a Rich Text Box? I want to do something like this:

richTextBox.Selection.Select(0, 1);

0 being the start position and 1 being the selection end position.

check this one out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1454440/select-range-of-text-in-wpf-richtextbox-flowdocument-programmatically — İsmet Alkan, Oct 14 '14 at 13:23
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/957441/richtextbox-wpf-does-not-have-string-property-text — blfuentes, Oct 14 '14 at 13:33

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 14 '14 at 13:25

You could use the TextRange object to do that. This should return the first character in your richtextbox

TextRange justTheFirst = new TextRange(richTextBox.Document.ContentStart,
                                       richTextBox.Document.ContentStart.GetPositionAtOffset(1));
string text = justTheFirst.Text;

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 14 '14 at 13:20

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Try :

richTextBox.Select(0, 1);

Maybe you'll need to set the hideSelection to false before;

richTextBox.HideSelection = false;
richTextBox.Select(0, 1);

answered Oct 14 '14 at 13:20

Benji_9989

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