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[jkl]

Is there a way to set the "focus" to a dynamically generated text box?

here's the deal. i have a datagrid object, in which i have an &quot;edit&quot; link for each item. when the user clicks &quot;edit&quot;, the <edititemtemplate> is then used. however, the page is too long, and so when they hit &quot;edit&quot;, the page re-posts and is focused at the top of the page. i want it to focus on the record that's being edited. any ideas?

 

[link9]

I wrote a FAQ about one method of doing this back in the ASP forum. It doesn't set the focus, but rather uses the document.body.scrollTop property in javascript to set the screen position on reload of a page. Same method still works with ASP.NET:

faq333-1037


paul

 

[Zarcom]

I found an object that allows you to set the focus of controls by adding javascript to the page at run time. So far I haven't found any built in functionality in .Net for this which is odd.

Just give me a bit and I'll dig up that focus control for you. That'l do donkey, that'l do

 

[Zarcom]

aha I have found it!

http://www.devx.com/dotnet/articles/rj121801/rj121801-1.asp

check this article out it is quite good and it includes the source code for the control at the end as a download. That'l do donkey, that'l do
Mark

 

[jfrost10]

Here's what we did to set the control to have focus. Its a sub that takes a control, and writes some script. Its all from teh codebehind though.

Private Sub SetFocus(ByVal ctrl As System.Web.UI.Control)
Dim s As String =
&quot;<SCRIPT language='javascript'>document.getElementById('&quot;
& ctrl.ID & &quot;').focus() </SCRIPT>&quot;

RegisterStartupScript(&quot;focus&quot;, s)

End Sub

Jack

 

[jkl]

thanks Jack, that did the trick.

 

[jfrost10]

np, glad it helped.


Jack