I'm not sure where to post this so if it needs to go somewhere else, let me know and I will re-post it there.

have you ever wanted to set initial focus to a specific control on a web form?  I have! And it took me a lot of digging around to come up with the solution.

In my case, I have a master page and a content page.  I need to set the initial focus to a text box named 'lkpLoginname'.  here's my code that gets placed in the Page_Load event of the page:

      If IsPostBack then Exit Sub

      '
      ' Initial entry.  Set focus to the windows ID text box
      '
      pnlEditEmps.Focus()

      Dim mainform As HtmlForm = DirectCast ( Master.FindControl      ( "Form1"        ), HtmlForm )
      Dim username As TextBox  = DirectCast ( pnlEditEmps.FindControl ( "lkpLoginName" ), TextBox  )

      If mainform IsNot Nothing AndAlso username IsNot Nothing Then
          mainform.DefaultFocus = username.UniqueID
      End If

The master page has a <form> and content page is wrapped with a panel.

If you don't have a master page, then you need a form element on your web page with a panel wrapped around it.  I was able to do this on a popup window and the code that worked is as follows:

      If IsPostBack then Exit Sub

      '
      ' Initial entry.  Set focus to the windows ID text box
      '
      Dim mainform As HtmlForm = DirectCast ( pnlWrapForm.FindControl ( "Form1"        ), HtmlForm )
      Dim username As TextBox  = DirectCast ( pnlWrapForm.FindControl ( "lkpLoginName" ), TextBox  )
      If mainform IsNot Nothing AndAlso username IsNot Nothing Then
          mainform.DefaultFocus = username.UniqueID
      End If


Sincerely yours,

Jerry Scannell
 

How about creating a FAQ if there isn't one already?

I keep trying to do something about my procrastination but I keep putting it off until tomorrow.

How do you do that?

Jerry Scannell
 

Click the FAQs tab.
Go all the way to the bottom of the page to create a new one.