Expert: Srini Nagarajan - 12/6/2004

Question
How do I automatically set the focus on a asp.net page to a text box when the page loads?

Also how do I launch a command button such as search or submit when the enter button is pressed on a keyboard?

Answer
hi


you can use javascript at the end of the page and setfocus if you do the codebehind on vb.net  use the following script

Sub Set_Focus()
Dim strVal As String
strVal = "<script language=javascript>document.all('textBox1').focus()</script>"
RegisterStartupScript("focus", strVal )
End Sub

on page load you can do like this

Page.RegisterHiddenField( "__EVENTTARGET", "btnSearch")

Happy Programming!

-Srini