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How to set cursor position in EditText?

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How to set cursor position in EditText Android?

Say in your xml's edittext section, add android:paddingLeft="100dp" This will move your start position of cursor 100dp right from left end. Same way, you can use android:paddingRight="100dp" This will move your end position of cursor 100dp left from right end.

How do I move my cursor to the end of EditText?

setSelection(editText. getText(). length()); This places cursor to end of EditText.


Where position is an int:

editText1.setSelection(position)

I have done this way to set cursor position to end of the text after updating the text of EditText programmatically here, etmsg is EditText

etmsg.setText("Updated Text From another Activity");
int position = etmsg.length();
Editable etext = etmsg.getText();
Selection.setSelection(etext, position);

How to Set EditText Cursor position in Android

Below Code is Set cursor to Starting in EditText:

 EditText editText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.edittext_id);
 editText.setSelection(0);

Below Code is Set cursor to end of the EditText:

EditText editText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.edittext_id);
editText.setSelection(editText.getText().length());

Below Code is Set cursor after some 2th Character position :

 EditText editText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.edittext_id);
 editText.setSelection(2);

I want to set cursor position in edittext which contains no data

There is only one position in an empty EditText, it's setSelection(0).

Or did you mean you want to get focus to your EditText when your activity opens? In that case its requestFocus()


use the below line

e2.setSelection(e2.length());

e2 is edit text Object Name