How to set focus on a page ..

[Swaroop Joshi]

Hi All,

 

How to set the focus in ASP.net for like say a textbox,Dropdownlist etc when we do validation if there is any error for incorrect input.?

How can we do this?

Can we do this both at Client and Server side?

 

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Swaroop Jayant Joshi

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[Thread]

Hi Swaroop,

We can do it in client side .Can do this in server side if you are
using VS 2005.
Lets check other;s opinion

Regards
Thread

[Selvakumar]

Hiii,
Put a ASP.Net Label control and set the font color to the label
as the background color of the form.Now from CODE set the value of the
label to the name of the control to which Focus has to be made!!!.

Add the following script to the end of the BODY tag of the web page..
<script>
//set the focus to the control
if (window.document.all("LabelName").value != "")
{
window.document.all(window.document.all("LabelName").value).focus();
window.document.all("LabelName").value = "";
}
</script>

Try it let me know if u have any doubts..This is what i've done for
focus problems...



Regards,
Selva..

[Anup Shinde]

Hi,

Use this method to set focus to your web-controls. Hopefully, it
should work fine in all cases


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Private Function SetFocus(ByRef ctrl As
System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl)
Dim strScript As String

If (ctrl.Enabled And ctrl.Visible) Then
strScript = " <script language=javascript>
document.forms[0]." + TextBox2.ClientID + ".focus(); </script>"
Page.RegisterStartupScript(ctrl.ID + "_focus", strScript)
End If
End Function

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Call it like: SetFocus(TextBox1)

Regards,
Anup Shinde

[Shivprasad Koirala]

Whats the problems with registerstarupscript and setfocus
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