Focus on control in webform

[reidarT]

How do I set focus on a textbox in a web-form?
regards
Rehiaa

[sushant.bhatia]

I tried this with two rich text boxes. When the program is started, it
would automatically give focus to richTextBox1. So in order to give
focus to richTextBox2, in the form load method, i called the following:

this.richTextBox2.Select();

It worked for me.

reidarT wrote:

How do I set focus on a textbox in a web-form?
regards
Rehiaa

[David Barkol]

In javascript:

document.getElementById('FirstName').focus();

If you wanted to do this in your server side code then you need a
procedure that registers this script:

public void SetFocus(Control focusControl)
{
string clientID = focusControl.ClientID;
System.Text.StringBuilder script = new
System.Text.StringBuilder();
script.Append(@"<script language='javascript'>");
script.Append(@"if(document.getElementById('" + clientID +
@"')){document.getElementById('" + clientID + @"').focus();}");
script.Append(@"</script>");

RegisterStartupScript("setFocus", script.ToString());
}

Then all you have to do is call it:

SetFocus(this.FirstName);

David Barkol
www.neudesic.com

[DalePres]

Page.RegisterStartupScript("focusScript", @"<script>

function setFocus(elementID) {

element = window.document.getElementById(elementID);

element.focus();

}

setFocus('txt1');

</script>");

HTH

DalePres

MCAD, MCDBA, MCSE

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How do I set focus on a textbox in a web-form?
regards
Rehiaa