Keeping focus question

[Mike Dennis]

I have a FormView with a lot of TextBoxes that AutoPostBack and perform an update on the OnTextChanged event.~26nbsp~3b I~27m using the RadAjaxManager on this FormView~2c and I was wondering if there is a way to keep the focus on the current TextBox that has been clicked on or tabbed to.~26nbsp~3b That isn~27t the box firing the event~2c but the box that the user is at right when the loading message gets displayed.~3cbr /~3e

[Tsvetoslav]

Hello Mike Dennis,

You can get a reference to the text box in code behind and use the ScriptManager's SetFocus method:

ScriptManager.GetCurrent(this.Page).SetFocus(currentTextBox);

I hope this helps.

Greetings,
Tsvetoslav
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[Mike Dennis]

Is there a way to get what control currently has focus during the OnTextChanged event~3f~26nbsp~3b There are a lot of text boxes~2c and the user could click any of them~2c so i would need to know which control has focus so that I can use it to set focus later.~3cbr /~3e

[Tsvetoslav]

Hi Mike Dennis,

You need to get on the client the ID of the textbox that received the focus before the postback and use it when the page loads to set the focus to this control. How exactly this should be done depends on your particular implementation.

Please, review the attached sample for some helpful suggestions in this direction.

Best Regards,
Tsvetoslav
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