How to set cursor position in EditText?

Question

There are two EditText,while loading the page a text is set in the first EditText, So now cursor will be in the starting place of EditText, I want to set cursor position in the second EditText which contains no data. How to do this?

Answer 1

Remember call requestFocus() before setSelection for edittext.

Answer 2

I believe the most simple way to do this is just use padding.

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.

For more detail, check this article on my blog: Android: Setting Cursor Starting and Ending Position in EditText Widget

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

Let editText2 is your second EditText view .then put following piece of code in onResume()

editText2.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
editText2.requestFocus();

or put

<requestFocus />

in your xml layout of the second EditText view.

Answer 5

If you want to set the cursor after n character from right to left then you have to do like this.

edittext.setSelection(edittext.length()-n);

If edittext's text like

version<sub></sub>

and you want to move cursor at 6th position from right

Then it will move the cursor at-

    version<sub> </sub>
                ^

Answer 6

use the below line

e2.setSelection(e2.length());

e2 is edit text Object Name