Cursor in Text Box

Andy Woodward · February 5th, 2009, 09:22 AM

Hi

I have just finished my first web site after reading Imar's book.
Everything is working fine.

Is there a way to make the cursor appear in the text box of a page without having to click in the box first.

Many thanks

Andy

alliancejhall · February 5th, 2009, 12:54 PM

Do you mean making the blinking beam appear with out clicking on it?

just focus on that textbox when the page loads?

TextBox1.focus()

is this what you are looking for or did I miss your point?

alliancejhall · February 5th, 2009, 01:06 PM

if you want to just hover your mouse over it you can use javascript?

<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" onmouseover="this.focus();" onmouseout="this.blur();"></asp:TextBox>

when you hover the textbox you can type in it but when you mouse away you can't (basically speaking)

Mouseover the textbox gains focus with out having to click
Mouseout the textbox loses focus with out having to click away

but this might be a little overkill... just not sure exactly what you want but i think my first post is more like what you are talking about.

Andy Woodward · February 5th, 2009, 01:15 PM

Thanks Jason. Thats exactly what I mean.

Where do I insert the TextBox1.focus(); command.

My text box is in a details view and when I add it to code behind page I get an error saying TextBox1 does not exist in the current context.

This is my code behind file:

Code:

public partial class Management_AddNewPin : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        TextBox1.focus();
        {
            if (Request.QueryString.Get("Id") != null)
            {
                DetailsView1.DefaultMode = DetailsViewMode.Edit;
            }
        }
    }
    
    protected void DetailsView1_ItemInserted(object sender, DetailsViewInsertedEventArgs e)
    {
        EndEditing();
    }
    protected void DetailsView1_ItemInserting(object sender, DetailsViewInsertEventArgs e)
    {
        e.Values["UpdateDateTime"] = DateTime.Now;
    }
    protected void DetailsView1_ItemUpdated(object sender, DetailsViewUpdatedEventArgs e)
    {
        EndEditing();
    }
    protected void DetailsView1_ItemUpdating(object sender, DetailsViewUpdateEventArgs e)
    {
        e.NewValues["UpdateDateTime"] = DateTime.Now;
    }

    private void EndEditing()
    {
        Response.Redirect("PinEntries.aspx");
    }
    protected void DetailsView1_PageIndexChanging(object sender, DetailsViewPageEventArgs e)
    {

    }
}

You can see where I put it. In the Page_Load.
Is this in the place?

Many thanks for your reply

alliancejhall · February 5th, 2009, 01:20 PM

TextBox1 should be your textbox id and because it's in a detailsview you will have to find it in the detailsview. I'm not totally familiar with them so someone else on here may be better suited to give you a detailed example. i'll try to do some testing on my end and let you know.

Imar · February 5th, 2009, 06:48 PM

Hi Andy,

You have at least three ways to do it:

1. Set the DefaultFocus on a Form or Panel control like this in Markup View:

<form id="form1" runat="server" DefaultFocus="txtEmailAddress">

2. Set the default focus in Page_Load by setting the DefaultFocus for the form:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Form.DefaultFocus = txtEmailAddress.UniqueID;
}

3. Call the Focus method on a specific control:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
txtEmailAddress.Focus();
}

Hope this helps,

Imar