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    sa_runner
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    This should be a softball for some of you. :) I want to have all of the text in a textbox highlighted when I enter (click, tab, etc) into it. How do you do that? Thanks in advance!

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      This should be a softball for some of you. :) I want to have all of the text in a textbox highlighted when I enter (click, tab, etc) into it. How do you do that? Thanks in advance!

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      Christian Graus
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      Use the selectionstart and selectionlength properties, set them to 0 and the length property of the text.

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      • S sa_runner

        This should be a softball for some of you. :) I want to have all of the text in a textbox highlighted when I enter (click, tab, etc) into it. How do you do that? Thanks in advance!

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        Thomas Stockwell
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        TextBox.SelectAll()

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        • S sa_runner

          This should be a softball for some of you. :) I want to have all of the text in a textbox highlighted when I enter (click, tab, etc) into it. How do you do that? Thanks in advance!

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          Rob Smiley
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          Create a handler for the GotFocus event & use SelectAll method. This works for tabbing between controls. Select all on click is a difficult, because the control uses mouseDown to set the caret. You could handle the MouseDown event in the same way as GotFocus & see if you like the result. Rob

          "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind"

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