Set focus to a textbox on page load

[Water Cooler v2]

I am new to ASP/ASP.NET so kindly be gentle. When my index.aspx page
loads, I need the focus to be on one of the textboxes called
txtUserName.

I come from a VB background, so expecting the obvious, I go to the
Page_Load event of the index.aspx page and try to write
txtUserName.SetFocus but I see there isn't a SetFocus method for the
System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox class.

What's the way to set the focus to a textbox on the page load in
ASP.NET?

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

You have to use java script for that. Add this between </form> and
</body> in the pages html.

<script
language="javascript">document.all.item('txtUserNa me').focus();</script>
Ken
--------------------
"Water Cooler v2" <wt*****@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:11**********************@o13g2000cwo.googlegr oups.com...

I am new to ASP/ASP.NET so kindly be gentle. When my index.aspx page
loads, I need the focus to be on one of the textboxes called
txtUserName.

I come from a VB background, so expecting the obvious, I go to the
Page_Load event of the index.aspx page and try to write
txtUserName.SetFocus but I see there isn't a SetFocus method for the
System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox class.

What's the way to set the focus to a textbox on the page load in
ASP.NET?

[shiv_koirala]

can be useful
http://ryanfarley.com/blog/archive/2004/12/21/1325.aspx

Shivprasad Koirala
C# , VB.NET , SQL SERVER , ASP.NET Interview Questions
http://www.geocities.com/dotnetinterviews/