Click event on a textbox

[LouisC4]

Do textbox controls have a click event? If they don't how is it possible to fire up and event when a user clicks on a textbox control or when the controls gets focus? I am working on a web form?

Thanks,

Louis

 

[adamroof]

You can do onTextChanged and AutoPostBack=true serverside, but it doesnt seem that would let anyone actually type anything into the textbox. You can use javascript for the focus event, but the textbox would lose focus after the event fired server side, and if you set focus serverside heres an endless loop for you.

<form runat="server">
    <asp:TextBox ID="txtBoxEvent" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
    <asp:LinkButton ID="lbClickEvent" runat="server" Text="Yo!" OnClick="launchServerEvent"></asp:LinkButton>
    <br />
    <asp:Label ID="lblMessage" runat="server"></asp:Label>
</form>

    Sub Page_Load()        
        If Not Page.IsPostBack Then
            txtBoxEvent.Attributes.Add("onfocus", Page.ClientScript.GetPostBackClientHyperlink(lbClickEvent, "", False))
        End If
    End Sub

    Sub launchServerEvent(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
        lblMessage.Text = "I Did it with JavaScript!"
        'Endless loop if you enable below!
        'SetFocus(txtBoxEvent)
    End Sub

 

[adamroof]

<asp:TextBox ID="txtBoxEvent" runat="server" AutoPostBack="true" OnTextChanged="otherServerEvent"></asp:TextBox>