How to: Insert Text at the Cursor Position

• Jun 07, 2019

The following code snippet demonstrates how you can insert text at the cursor position in the RichEditControl document:

Note

A complete sample project is available at https://github.com/DevExpress-Examples/wpf-richedit-document-api-t213968.

RangeActions.cs

DocumentPosition pos = document.CaretPosition;
SubDocument doc = pos.BeginUpdateDocument();
doc.InsertText(pos, " INSERTED TEXT ");
pos.EndUpdateDocument(doc);

RangeActions.vb

Dim pos As DocumentPosition = document.CaretPosition
Dim doc As SubDocument = pos.BeginUpdateDocument()
doc.InsertText(pos, " INSERTED TEXT ")
pos.EndUpdateDocument(doc)