Giving a TextBox control on a page load

stevenk140 · Nov 26, 2003

I have web page and a textbox on that web page. I was wondering if there is a way for textbox to start off as 'Selected' so the user can just start typing as soon as the page loads, rather than having to click in it before he starts to type.

Steven

LV · Nov 26, 2003

You can do it via javascript:

Code:

<head>
 function setFocus(){
  // id of your server control
  objText = document.getElementById(&quot;myTextBox&quot;);
  objText.select();
 }
</head>

<body onload=&quot;javascript:setFocus()&quot;>

stevenk140 · Nov 26, 2003

Can you do it in the C# code in Page_Load() ?

LV · Nov 26, 2003

I think you can.

Code:

string  script = &quot;<script language=javascript>&quot;;
script += &quot;function window.onload(){&quot;;
script += &quot;document.getElementById('myTextBox').select();}&quot;;
script += &quot;</script>&quot;;
if(!Page.Page.IsClientScriptBlockRegistered(&quot;setFocus&quot;))
{
 Page.RegisterClientScriptBlock(&quot;setFocus&quot;, script);
}

jzelhart · Nov 26, 2003

In the HTML portion for the aspx page. Place the following onload in the body tag. Obviously use the Form Name and the Text Box Name.

<body onload="document.Form1.txtUserID.focus()">

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Giving a TextBox control on a page load

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