I am very familiar with the traditional body onLoad event to set focus to a form element in JavaScript. However, in .NET, I am dealing with elements that have no name per se, just an id value.

How do I use this to set focus when a page loads? It's a standard login page, and I'd like to have the Username field get the focus on load.

Thanks in advance.

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You can get the unique ID that .net will assign to a control with "<control>.ClientID". This will give you the value that will go in the id attribute of the HTML tag. Use the getElementById() document method to access the HTML object...

document.getElementById('<output of .ClientID>')

Peter
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It worked perfectly. I swear, intellisense has me whipped. The focus method is not in the intellisense list for
document.getElementById("controlname")


Thanks again. Enjoy your long weekend.

Colonel

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It shouldn't be. getElementById could return any element of the document object model. This could be a span, form, input, button, image, div, anything that has an ID. Many of those can't take focus.

Peter
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I see.

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