Set focus to a textbox on page load

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Water Cooler v2

I am new to ASP/ASP.NET so kindly be gentle. When my index.aspx page
loads, I need the focus to be on one of the textboxes called
txtUserName.

I come from a VB background, so expecting the obvious, I go to the
Page_Load event of the index.aspx page and try to write
txtUserName.SetFocus but I see there isn't a SetFocus method for the
System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox class.

What's the way to set the focus to a textbox on the page load in
ASP.NET?
 
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Ken Tucker [MVP]

Hi,

You have to use java script for that. Add this between </form> and
</body> in the pages html.

<script
language="javascript">document.all.item('txtUserName').focus();</script>


Ken
 

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