How to: Insert Text at the Cursor Position

• Nov 13, 2018

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/winforms-richedit-document-api-e5219

Range.cs

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

Range.vb

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

Tip

You can insert text at the cursor position within the text box. Use the TextBox.Document property to obtain the text box content. Refer to the How to: Insert Rich Text in the TextBox topic for details.