F2 Should not Select All Text in RadGridView Cell

Updated on Sep 15, 2025

Environment

Product Version	2019.1 415
Product	RadGridView for WPF

Description

How to disable the text selection when a cell enters edit mode by pressing the F2 key.

Solution

1. Create a custom RadGridView column and override its PrepareCellForEdit method.
2. In the method override, get the editing element (TextBox) and manually set its SelectionStart property.

C#

	public class CustomGridViewDataColumn : GridViewDataColumn
	{
		protected override object PrepareCellForEdit(FrameworkElement editingElement, RoutedEventArgs editingEventArgs)
		{
			var cell = base.PrepareCellForEdit(editingElement, editingEventArgs);
			var tb = editingElement as TextBox;
			if (tb != null && !(editingEventArgs is MouseButtonEventArgs))
			{
				tb.SelectionStart = tb.Text.Length;
			}
			return cell;
		}
	}

XAML

	<telerik:RadGridView.Columns>
		<local:CustomGridViewDataColumn DataMemberBinding="{Binding Name}" />
	</telerik:RadGridView.Columns>

See Also

• Keyboard Support
• Defining Columns
• Custom Column