Setting focus to a text box on page load

[William LaMartin]

All of a sudden code that had been working at my websites to set the focus
to a particular text box on page load now produces an error.

The code is:

'put the focus on the first text box
Dim strScript As String
strScript = "<script>"
strScript = strScript & "document.forms[0].txtUserName.focus();"
strScript = strScript & "</script>"
Page.RegisterStartupScript("ClientScript", strScript)

And the error produced is: 'document.forms.0.txtUserName' is null or not an
object

It is happening in my development computer as well at sites. All I can
figure is that some Windows update changed IIS in some way.

What is the solution?

[William LaMartin]

After sending the previous message, I changed

strScript = strScript & "document.forms[0].txtUserName.focus();"

to

strScript = strScript & "document.getElementById('txtUserName').focus( )"

and the error message went away. Still, something has changed on the
servers to cause the error in the first place.

"William LaMartin" <la******@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
news:%2***************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

All of a sudden code that had been working at my websites to set the focus
to a particular text box on page load now produces an error.

The code is:

'put the focus on the first text box
Dim strScript As String
strScript = "<script>"
strScript = strScript & "document.forms[0].txtUserName.focus();"
strScript = strScript & "</script>"
Page.RegisterStartupScript("ClientScript", strScript)

And the error produced is: 'document.forms.0.txtUserName' is null or not
an object

It is happening in my development computer as well at sites. All I can
figure is that some Windows update changed IIS in some way.

What is the solution?

[Eliyahu Goldin]

Replace

document.forms[0].txtUserName.focus();

with

document.getElementById("txtUserName").focus();

Eliyahu

"William LaMartin" <la******@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
news:%2***************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

All of a sudden code that had been working at my websites to set the focus
to a particular text box on page load now produces an error.

The code is:

'put the focus on the first text box
Dim strScript As String
strScript = "<script>"
strScript = strScript & "document.forms[0].txtUserName.focus();"
strScript = strScript & "</script>"
Page.RegisterStartupScript("ClientScript", strScript)

And the error produced is: 'document.forms.0.txtUserName' is null or not an object

It is happening in my development computer as well at sites. All I can
figure is that some Windows update changed IIS in some way.

What is the solution?

[William LaMartin]

Thanks. I did that, and everything is now fine.

But why did the other code work for over a year before throwing the error
only recently?
"Eliyahu Goldin" <re*************@monarchmed.com> wrote in message
news:ea*************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Replace

document.forms[0].txtUserName.focus();

with

document.getElementById("txtUserName").focus();

Eliyahu

"William LaMartin" <la******@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
news:%2***************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

All of a sudden code that had been working at my websites to set the
focus
to a particular text box on page load now produces an error.

The code is:

'put the focus on the first text box
Dim strScript As String
strScript = "<script>"
strScript = strScript & "document.forms[0].txtUserName.focus();"
strScript = strScript & "</script>"
Page.RegisterStartupScript("ClientScript", strScript)

And the error produced is: 'document.forms.0.txtUserName' is null or not

an

object

It is happening in my development computer as well at sites. All I can
figure is that some Windows update changed IIS in some way.

What is the solution?