Left Align Cursor in Gridview Template Field 2

[Waynest]

Hi

In gridview when user clicks the update button, then clicks into a text field he wants to edit, the cursor is being positioned where he clicks inside the box.

Is it possible to make the cursor be positioned at the leftmost position when the user clicks on the box?

Thankyou

 

[jbenson001]

I belive you would have to use javascript to do that.

 

[adamroof]

Tested with textboxes with one and two words in them. IE7, in a datagrid EditItemTemplate

Javascript

function leftmost(clicked)
{    
    var rng = clicked.createTextRange();
    rng.move("sentence",-1);
    rng.select();
}

.net 2.0 html

<EditItemTemplate>
    <div>
        Name:
        <asp:TextBox ID="linkName" Width="150" Text='<%# Eval("linkName") %>' runat="server"
            onfocus="leftmost(this);" />
        <br />
        Categ:
        <asp:TextBox ID="linkCategory" Width="150" Text='<%# Eval("linkCategory") %>' runat="server"
            onfocus="leftmost(this);" />
    </div>
</EditItemTemplate>

 

[Waynest]

That's extremely useful, thanks