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Hi,

I have a form containing a number of panels, simulating a wizard
(simulating, actually, a multi-page form). After pressing a button called
"Next", I am showing a new panel on this form, loaded with some controls. I
need to set the focus onto a textbox in the newly shown panel right away,
without "asking" the user to tab (or to click) his way towards my textbox.
So please, how can I set the focus programatically on any control on my form
?

Maybe using "FindControl" ?? And then ?

Thank you
Alex

in the button's handler, put something like...
me.RegisterClientStartupScript("initialFocus","<sc ript
language=javascript>document.Form1.theControlYouWa nt.focus();</script>")

be careful. If your text box us called text1 and its inside panel1 then the
clientID might be something like panel1:text1

You'll want to either do a View>>Source on your HTML to see what the client
ID is, or use the Test Box's ClientID property

"news.iq.ca" <> wrote in message
news:41a6dde4_2@aeinews....
> Hi,
>
> I have a form containing a number of panels, simulating a wizard
> (simulating, actually, a multi-page form). After pressing a button called
> "Next", I am showing a new panel on this form, loaded with some controls.
I
> need to set the focus onto a textbox in the newly shown panel right away,
> without "asking" the user to tab (or to click) his way towards my textbox.
> So please, how can I set the focus programatically on any control on my
form
> ?
>
> Maybe using "FindControl" ?? And then ?
>
> Thank you
> Alex
>
>

Hi Alex,

You might want to investigate this free control:

FirstFocus Control
This control creates the proper javascript to give focus to control after
the page has loaded.

http://www.metabuilders.com/Tools/FirstFocus.aspx

"news.iq.ca" <> wrote in message
news:41a6dde4_2@aeinews....
> Hi,
>
> I have a form containing a number of panels, simulating a wizard
> (simulating, actually, a multi-page form). After pressing a button called
> "Next", I am showing a new panel on this form, loaded with some controls.
> I need to set the focus onto a textbox in the newly shown panel right
> away, without "asking" the user to tab (or to click) his way towards my
> textbox. So please, how can I set the focus programatically on any control
> on my form ?
>
> Maybe using "FindControl" ?? And then ?
>
> Thank you
> Alex
>

Thanks a lot for your answers. ))

Alex.

"news.iq.ca" <> wrote in message
news:41a6dde4_2@aeinews....
> Hi,
>
> I have a form containing a number of panels, simulating a wizard
> (simulating, actually, a multi-page form). After pressing a button called
> "Next", I am showing a new panel on this form, loaded with some controls.
> I need to set the focus onto a textbox in the newly shown panel right
> away, without "asking" the user to tab (or to click) his way towards my
> textbox. So please, how can I set the focus programatically on any control
> on my form ?
>
> Maybe using "FindControl" ?? And then ?
>
> Thank you
> Alex
>

Try here:
http://lucaslabs.net/blogs/mcculloch...07/23/875.aspx

"news.iq.ca" <> wrote in message
news:41aea2ec_4@aeinews....
> Thanks a lot for your answers. ))
>
> Alex.
>
> "news.iq.ca" <> wrote in message
> news:41a6dde4_2@aeinews....
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a form containing a number of panels, simulating a wizard
> > (simulating, actually, a multi-page form). After pressing a button
called
> > "Next", I am showing a new panel on this form, loaded with some
controls.
> > I need to set the focus onto a textbox in the newly shown panel right
> > away, without "asking" the user to tab (or to click) his way towards my
> > textbox. So please, how can I set the focus programatically on any
control
> > on my form ?
> >
> > Maybe using "FindControl" ?? And then ?
> >
> > Thank you
> > Alex
> >
>
>