Highlight Text in Textbox

[butchzn]

I am attemptimg to programmatically highlight a selection of text in a textbox. I trying to achieve this by so doing:

tbxItemUrl.SelectionStart = 0;
tbxItemUrl.SelectionLength = pageDetailItemSection.tbxItemUrl.Text.Length;
tbxItemUrl.SelectionBackground = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Yellow);
tbxItemUrl.SelectionForeground= new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Black);

but to no avail. some resources...i have attempted to try [][^] Has anybody successfully managed to do this...thanks

[Abhinav S]

I did not have to search far[^]. Hope it helps !

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modified on Friday, January 8, 2010 1:02 PM

[Mark Salsbery]

Also, your code probably didn't work because the TextBox didn't have focus. This worked for me:

System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage.Plugin.Focus();
tbxItemUrl.SelectionStart = 0;
tbxItemUrl.SelectionLength = tbxItemUrl.Text.Length;
tbxItemUrl.SelectionBackground = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Yellow);
tbxItemUrl.SelectionForeground = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Black);
tbxItemUrl.Focus();

Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

[butchzn]

Thanks for the replies. Really appreciated. The focus definitely works, thank you, however i have multiple textboxes that i am looking for matches in and would like to highlight any matches in all the necessary textboxes. Setting the focus would only then highlight 1 textbox. Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks again.

[Mark Salsbery]

You'll need to do highlighting something like Abhinav S linked to above.

Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

[carlecomm]

Check this: http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/p/137089/306336.aspx