newB: set focus textbox w/WebControls?

Hello all this is my first post and I am new to VB and .NET.

I would like to set focus to a textbox when my page loads.

Here is some of what I have:
Protected WithEvents textbox1 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox

Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

'Set position of cursor in text box.
'textbox1.focus 'NOT WORKING??

I think the problem is with WebControls. Is there another option?
I don't know about WebControls vs Others. I am trying to modify existing code.

I have also tried to set the tab order but this did not help.

Thanks.

Do you specifically need to use a web control?

System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox does not appear to have an entry for Focus in the help, whereas System.Windows.Forms.TextBox does.

You might want to check out googles home page source code. It has some javascript that I think does this.

I found this in the ASP .NET forum written by Dr.Who/Tim, it works.

This will work, except on self-made usercontrols...

just add a 'imports system.text' line before your class dec.

add this to your startup:

Dim strBuilder As StringBuilder = New StringBuilder()

strBuilder.Append("<script language='javascript'>")
strBuilder.Append("function setFocus() {")
strBuilder.Append("document.getElementById('TextBox3').focus();}")
strBuilder.Append(" window.onload=setFocus;")
strBuilder.Append("</script>")
RegisterClientScriptBlock("Focus", strBuilder.ToString)

Remember to change 'TextBox3' to yourTextBoxId
If anyone has a better way please post. But this does work!
Thank you Dr.Who

This can't be the only way can it?

If it is then this is VERy silly :(

Woka

Keep in mind server side controls can't handle a lot of the logic that you are accustomed to using in VB. It doesn't make sense.

You need to use client-side scripts to do this.

Remember, the asp.net server sends html code for the browser to interpret so anything that isn't possible in HTML has to be done with a script.