setting focus to a textbox

I have a textbox (txtMaiden) and a radio button list (rblGender) in two separate User Controls that I'm using for a registration site. The txtMaiden control appears or disappears depending on whether Male or Female is designated on the radio button. This all works fine but I want the textbox to have focus when it becomes visible. As of now, it only gets focus when the page refreshes. Code follows. Any ideas?

<Prf:gender ID="GenderE" Gender='<%#Bind("Gender")%>' runat="server" />
<Prf:maiden ID="MaidenE" Maiden='<%#Bind("MaidenName")%>' Maiden_Disp='<%#Bind("MaidenName_Disp")%>'
    runat="server" />


<%@ Control Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="gender.ascx.vb" Inherits="userControls_profile_gender" %>
<asp:Panel ID="pnlGender" Visible="true" runat="server">
    <div class="label">
        <asp:Label ID="lblGender" Text="Sex:" runat="server" />
    </div>
    <div class="ctrl">
                <asp:RadioButtonList ID="rblGender" AppendDataBoundItems="True" AutoPostBack="True"
                    Font-Size="10pt&quo

I created a page with several controls (ddl, tbx) that I use for filtering a Gridview.  I created a javascript function that runs on the OnClientClick Event of an <asp:button  to set the value of an <asp:TextBox to today and a Selected Value in a ddl. 

function setMyToday() {
            var tbxToday = document.getElementById('ctl00_cntPage_tbxToday');
            var tbxUID = document.getElementById('ctl00_cntPage_tbxUserID');
            var ddlPV = document.getElementById('ctl00_cntPage_ddlProvider');
            tbxToday.value = makeToday();
            ddlPV.value = tbxUID.value;
            }

The button submits the page and returns some records in a Gridview.  I can see the value in the tbxToday when the button is clicked and the row in the drop down list, but when the page is posted,the value in the text bos is lost and as a result is not used to filter the records.  However the value in the ddlProvider is

Question from a newbie:

In the problem code, there is a modal popup that is shown using .Show, and that part works fine.  A textbox in the popup needs to display text, but I can't get that part to work.

testModalPopUp = Page.FindControl("ExampleModalPopUp")
testTextBox = Page.FindControl("ExampleTextBox")

testModalPopUp.Show()
testTextBox.Text = "something goes here"

Is there something I'm missing?

Thanks!

Hi

How can I keep focus on caller textbox on textchange event or set focus on a given textbox according to a given value?

How can I know which textbox triggered the event if I need to use the same textchange method?

thanks in advance

Hi,

I have a textbox, where i call its lostfocus event when the value changes.

In lost focus i do a Asynchronous process to update a grid with the text entered. 

I have a scenario in which immediately after changing the value in textbox i hit a button, though the button click event raises i want it to wait till the asysnchronous process in lost focus of the textbox is complete. i want to do this as i use the result from lostfocus in button click event.

Please let mt know if there is a way to make the lost focus wait till it completes the asynchronous call.

Hi all ,

I am stuck in the set focus field in field in ajaxtoolkit : Tab  at codebehind when button click.

    Protected Sub btnSubmit_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSubmit.Click



    If StringUtil.IsStringEmpty(Me.ddlSex.SelectedValue) = True Then

       Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(Me.GetType, "ErrMsg", 
            JScriptUtil.ErrorMsg("Jantina (Sex): "

    End if



   End Sub

I have a MaskedEditExtender with Mask="(999) 999-9999".

Now my problem is, if someone goes into the textbox and enters

1234567

Then they leave the textbox, and then see that they forgot to enter the area code, if they go back in there to enter the area code, it starts overwritting the other numbers instead of just adding to them. 

i am was able to cause the mouse wheel to work on my datagridview.

now i have noticed that when the form first loads i actually need to click the datagridview to set the focus on it and then i can scroll

i added two line for my form load event

    ' Selecting first datagrid row
        grdAccountTypes.Rows(0).Selected = True
        grdAccountTypes.Focus()

but that didn't solve my problem either.

any ideas ?

Hi,

can you please tell how to focus cursor to UserName TextBox in Login control when page is loaded for the first time in browser ? 

Hi!

Having trouble setting the focus on a cell after the collection recieves a new row. This is my code:

		void
 My_DataGridRow_Coll_CollectionChanged(object
 sender, System.Collections.Specialized.NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
		{
			DataGridRowObjects<My_DataGridRow> oc = (DataGridRowObjects<My_DataGridRow>)sender;
			if
 (e.Action == NotifyCollectionChangedAction.Add)
			{
				//set focus to column 2 of the new row

				DataGridCell cell = my_datagrid.GetCell(e.NewStartingIndex, 2);
				if
 (cell != null
)
				{
				 DataGridCellInfo info = new
 DataGridCellInfo(cell);
				 my_datagrid.CurrentCell = info;
				}
			}
		}

Is there any event that fires after the CollectionChanged? My DataGridRow doesn't have a CellPresenter att this stage and GetCell fails. If I do the same with a button event instead, it works fine.

I just tried to add a dispatcher message instead but that did nothing:

Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(new Action(delegate()
{
  //set focus to column 2 of the new row
  DataGridCell c

Hi,

I've got a textbox that I'm temporarily applying a class to to give it white text on a white background.  For some reason when I apply that class, the border style changes from the default single, gray, flat border to an inset, 2px, gray border. I messed around with different combinations of styles and colors and it seems as though setting any background-color on the textbox causes the border to change. Where does the default border style come from and why is it changing?

Hi,

I am trying to set the color of a textbox that has focus to gray. How can I tell which textbox currently has the curser on it so when they click the change color button it will change the textbox that is focused. Something like this:

focusedtextbox.BackColor = Drawing.Color.LightGray