newB: set focus textbox w/WebControls?

[subegt]

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.

[shutty]

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.

[hellswraith]

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

[subegt]

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

[Wokawidget]

This can't be the only way can it?

If it is then this is VERy silly

Woka

[wey97]

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.