Set focus to Textbox when page starts?

jsandoval · Jan 20, 2006

Hello all,

I am very new to web development and Visual Studio so I have not discoverd how to perform a lot of web app features as of yet. My question is how do I set focus to the first input textbox of a web page when it first displays?

Thank you in advance for any input.

JohnH · Jan 20, 2006

In html code view you can use Javascript to set focus, for example in body onload event:

HTML:

<body onload="document.getElementById('txtSample').focus()">

jsandoval · Jan 20, 2006

Thank you for your response John.

I tried your code but did not get the desired result. Perhaps I have posed the question incorrectly, what I mean by focus is I want the cursor to be positioned in the first text box (ie. txtUserID) when the page first displays, so the user does not have to tab to or click on the text box before they start typing.

Thanks again.

JohnH · Jan 20, 2006

That IS what Javascript focus method does. You did change the id to your own 'txtUserID' ? I am wondering however this could not have worked actually...

There exist no functionality for this in Asp.Net 1. In v2 there are some news, see this article:
http://www.beansoftware.com/ASP.NET-Tutorials/Focus-ASP.NET.aspx

jsandoval · Jan 23, 2006

Thank you again John.

The code snippet in beansoftware did the trick:

Page.RegisterStartupScript("SetFocus", _
"<script>document.getElementById('" & txtUserID.ClientID & _
"').focus();</script>")

Thanks once again for you help.

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