Setting focus to FormView's child controls...

[Guest]

How do I set the focus to a control that is a child to a FormView? I've tried
the obvious (below) and lots of variations but none seam to work!

Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles
Me.Load
Me.FormView1.Row.FindControl("TextBox1").Focus()
End Sub

 

[S. Justin Gengo]

Dick,

Focus won't work on a web page. You have to set focus with javascript on the
web.

Here's a subroutine from a Javacript Component I give away for free on my
website:

Public Sub SetFocus(ByVal page As System.Web.UI.Page, ByVal webControl As
System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl)

If Not Page.ClientScript.IsStartupScriptRegistered("TextBoxFocus") Then

Dim StringBuilder As New System.Text.StringBuilder

With StringBuilder

..Append("<script language=""javascript"">" & vbCrLf)

..Append(vbTab & "<!--" & vbCrLf)

..Append(vbTab & vbTab & "document.getElementById('" & webControl.ClientID &
"').focus();" & vbCrLf)

..Append(vbTab & "//-->" & vbCrLf)

..Append("</script>" & vbCrLf)

End With

page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(GetType(String), "TextBoxFocus",
StringBuilder.ToString)

End If

End Sub

This one is converted for .net 2.0 currently the component on the site is
written for .net 1.1 so if you need that you can see a demo of all the
scripts in the component and download the source code for free from here:

http://www.aboutfortunate.com/default.aspx?page=javascriptdemo

Regards,

--
S. Justin Gengo
Web Developer / Programmer

Free code library:
http://www.aboutfortunate.com

"Out of chaos comes order."
Nietzsche

 

[Christopher Reed]

Try this:

Dim TextBox1 As TextBox = (TextBox)FormView1.FindControl("TextBox1")
TextBox1.Focus()

 

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi Richard,

If you're going to reference any sub controls in the FormView, make sure
the ID is correct and the Template (where the control reside ) is the
current active template( e.g if the FormView is in edit mode, we can only
reference controls in the edit template...).

Also, for setting focus on a certain control, we can also use the ASP.NET
2.0 page class's "SetFocus" method(Page.SetFocus) to set the page's focus
on a certain control. We can pass the control's reference into the funciton.

Please have a try on it and let me know if there is still any problem.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Community Support


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[Christopher Reed]

So you can use this: Page.SetFocus(FormView1.FindControl("Textbox1"))

 

[Guest]

Cool. That worked just fine. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Page.SetFocus(FormView1.FindControl("Textbox1")) was just what I needed.
Thanks.

 

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

You're welcome Richard,

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Community Support


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[Ben]

Is there any way to do this for a textbox inside a datalist?
(So on Edit Template, the page should set focus on the textbox). Also if
the list spans more than the screen length, editing something below
should retain focus on the bottom and not reload page with the focus on
top.
Thanks in Advance,
Arthur

 

[Ben]

Is there any way to do this for a textbox inside a datalist?
(So on Edit Template, the page should set focus on the textbox). Also if
the list spans more than the screen length, editing something below
should retain focus on the bottom and not reload page with the focus on
top.
Thanks in Advance,
Arthur