selectall() property in C# for textbox control

Question

I know, there is a property for textbox control in windows form, called selectall().

I am trying to achieve the same in my web app, for a textbox, once it recieves the focus(), i am trying to select all the text in the textbox.

I know I can write some jquery for this, but, is there any other easier way to achieve this?

Answer 1

Try this:

<asp:TextBox ID="Textbox1" runat="server" onFocus="this.select()" />

Answer 2

No, you cannot do this without some client side scripting code. The code is very simple, though. In your Page_Load event, just specify:

myTextBox.Attributes.Add("onfocus", "this.select()")

Answer 3

Textbox1.Attributes["onFocus"] = "this.select()";