[Solved] Keeping Focus after AJAX request

[instigator]

I hate it when an item in a form makes an ajax request and then I lose focus where I was at in the form. Here is the RadAjax solution I came up with to solve this problem. There's probably 100 solutions to this, but here's what I did.


In the Page_Load I check to see if there was an ajax request, and if there was, set the focus. "radAjaxManager" is the ID of my RadAjaxManager control.

//Maintain cursor position on ajax postback
var rad = RadScriptManager.GetCurrent(this.Page);
string ajaxTrigger = rad.AsyncPostBackSourceElementID;
Control c = rad.FindControl(ajaxTrigger);

if (c != null)
{
   if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(ajaxTrigger) && !ajaxTrigger.Contains("radAjaxManager"))
   {
      radAjaxManager.FocusControl(c.ClientID);
   }
}

[Iana Tsolova]

Hi instigator,

Thank you for sharing your solution with the community.

Another way to focus control after an AJAX request is to use the FocusControl() method of RadAjax as shown here.

Sincerely yours,
Iana
the Telerik team

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