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ArisRS
ArisRS

Reputation: 1394

UITextField set cursor to start text position

I need to move cursor to start text position on set focus on the textfield. Is it possible tot do?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 26555

Answers (3)

Dave
Dave

Reputation: 12216

If anyone's looking for the answer in Swift: 

let desiredPosition = textField.beginningOfDocument
textField.selectedTextRange = textField.textRangeFromPosition(desiredPosition, toPosition: desiredPosition)

But I believe this only works if the cursor is already in the text field. You can use this to do that:

textField.becomeFirstResponder()
let desiredPosition = textField.beginningOfDocument
textField.selectedTextRange = textField.textRangeFromPosition(desiredPosition, toPosition: desiredPosition)

Upvotes: 4

omz
omz

Reputation: 53561

Set your view controller (or some other appropriate object) as the text field's delegate and implement the textFieldDidBeginEditing: method like this:

- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
    UITextPosition *beginning = [textField beginningOfDocument];
    [textField setSelectedTextRange:[textField textRangeFromPosition:beginning
                                                          toPosition:beginning]];
}

Note that setSelectedTextRange: is a protocol method of UITextInput (which UITextField implements), so you won't find it directly in the UITextField documentation.

Upvotes: 23

Anoop Vaidya
Anoop Vaidya

Reputation: 46563

self.selectedTextRange = [self textRangeFromPosition:newPos toPosition:newPos];

Check this Finding the cursor position in a UITextField

Upvotes: 4

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