Set focus on text box

try setting SmartNavigation to "true" inside the page directive for that page

Is  this a proprty of the form ? As I cant seem to find it in design view

no, at the top of your page in HTML view you'll see
<%@ Page Language="vb".... %>

at the very top of the page.
To that directive add a line Smartnavigation="true"

see if it'll help

Sorry Iam using VB.net not ASP.net

In page load

Page.RegisterStartupScript("focus", "<script>document.getElementById('textbox1').focus();</script>")

winForms...oops

:)

well...i had the same problem and above line of code works....cool...

then after some time...i found a complex but a better solution to the problem....

add a class to your application....add the following lines of code to that....


Imports System.Text

Public Class Pooldimps

    Public Shared Sub SetFocus(ByVal Ctrl As Control)

        Dim sb As New StringBuilder

        sb.Append(Chr(13) & Chr(10))
        sb.Append("<script language='JavaScript'>" & Chr(13) & Chr(10))
        sb.Append("<!--" & Chr(13) & Chr(10))
        sb.Append("function SetFocus()" & Chr(13) & Chr(10))
        sb.Append("{" & Chr(13) & Chr(10))
        sb.Append("document.")

        Dim p As Control = Ctrl.Parent

        While Not TypeOf p Is System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlForm
            p = p.Parent
        End While

        sb.Append(p.ClientID)
        sb.Append("['")
        sb.Append(Ctrl.UniqueID.ToString)
        sb.Append("'].focus();" & Chr(13) & Chr(10))
        sb.Append("}" & Chr(13) & Chr(10))
        sb.Append("window.onload = SetFocus;" & Chr(13) & Chr(10))
        sb.Append("// -->" & Chr(13) & Chr(10))
        sb.Append("</script>")

        Ctrl.Page.RegisterClientScriptBlock("SetFocus", sb.ToString())

    End Sub


Then you can call this SetFocus method from anywhere....


Private Sub Page_Load

Pooldimps.SetFocus(YourControlName)

End Sub

Cheers....