SetFocus

[Jurjen de Groot]

I would like to set the focus automatically to one of the textbox controls
on my page, but so far on every page I load I have to set the cursor to the
textbox by Tab-ing or clicking my mouse in it. I would think that there's a
much simpler way to solve this ...
regards,

Jurjen de Groot
G.I.T.S. Netherlands.

[dmedina]

Jurjen de Groot

Try putting this code at the end of the page,I think it
goes before the body tag and after the form tag....

<script language=javascript>
document.GetElementById('YourTextboxName').focus()
</script>

dmedina

-----Original Message-----
Perry,

Thanks for your response.
I still have a problem, when I start my ASP.NET project the login formappears, but the user has to click in the 'username' field (or hit tab a fewtimes) to get the cursor into the username field. I'd really like to set thecursor in this field (or ay field for that matter) upon 'page load'.
I've read the KB article but that uses the focus setting after pressing abutton. I can't figure out how to use this on something like a page loadevent.

Kind regards,

Jurjen de Groot
G.I.T.S. Netherlands.
""Perry Deng"" <pe*****@online.microsoft.com> wrote in messagenews:LA**************@cpmsftngxa09.phx.gbl...

At design time, you can use the TabIndex property to specify the tab

order

of each control in the web page. While at running time,

you can use the Focus method to set focus to web control using client- side script.
Please refer to the following article for the sample code: HOW TO: Set Focus to Web Form Controls By Using Client- Side Script http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN- US;816166
Best regards,
Perry Deng
Microsoft

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[Mark0400]

Since your using asp.net
in the onpage load event

Me.FieledID.Focus()

So if your field ID is username

Me.Username.Focus()

The advantage to using this method is that ASP.net will handle any browser differences and send client side code appropriate for the requesting browser.

One more note of relevence: In ASP.net the field names are generated at runtime. You can see what they are by looking at the HTML source code of the rendered page.

Happy coding
Mark