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Set focus to a text box on a web page after textchanged event...

I have an aspx page that has text boxes. On one of my text boxes I have a changedText event.

After the changed text event the cursur goes to an undesirable location.

I tried to do a me.txtph.focus() but that did not work.

What I am looking to do is either go to me.txtph or put the cursur when they hit tab to the next tab order or when they click on a different field, keep the cursur there.

Any ideas would be helpful.

I have attached my changed text event code.

Protected Sub txtstate_TextChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
        Try

            If Me.txtstate.Text = "AE" Or Me.txtstate.Text = "AA" Or Me.txtstate.Text = "AP" Then

                If TxtdelDoc.Text <> "" And TxtFromCountry.Text <> "" And txtcountry.Text <> "" Then
                    btnInternational.Enabled = True
                End If

            Else
                btnInternational.Enabled = False
            End If
            Me.txtph.Focus()

        Catch ex As Exception

        End Try
    End Sub

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Robb Hill

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Robb Hill

That was jscript solution to ....but you can try this too I think.

use Page.SetFocus method with control's ID as a parameter

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Bran-Damage

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Both of these solutions work, but my main issue, I found out, was not actually with the java script. There was an auto postback occurring that was causing the set focus to go to another area than desired.

I modified this, used your java script... BOOM, worked like a charm