Does anyone know how to set focus to the last character of a textbox in javascript. For example when a page loads a value will be set in a textbox. Take the word "sample", for instance. I want to set focus to the textbox and the cursor should appear after the "e" in "sample". I've tried to populate that textbox and then set focus, hoping that the cursor would be at the end since there was already text in there, but it just put the cursor at the beginning of the word. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
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Set focus to the last character of a textbox
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Dear mmarseil,<br><br>As far as I know there is no way to accomplish this is the current standard. You are limited to selecting all the text or letting the browser perform default behavior. Hopefully someone will let us know if I am wrong.<br><br>You might be able to accomplish this in IE 5 using the 'behavior' implementation, but I haven't looked into that yet so I can't really say.<br><br>Good Luck<br>-pete
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