Set focus problem

[Deidre]

I have a page with a drop down and several web controls. The drop down
is set to postback and it reloads the textboxes based on the selected
drop down item. I set the focus to the first textbox control on the
client like this:
<script language="vbscript">
Option Explicit
....other code
If Not <%=mbReadOnly%> Then
document.frmDetails.txtName.focus()
End If
....other code
</script>
This works fine on first page load but when I change the drop down it
does reset the focus and you can't even type in the first textbox
until you select another textbox first.
To debug I added a message box right before the set focus to see if it
was even getting to this line of code and it works but I can't leave a
message box here.
Any ideas on what could be the problem?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Deidre

[Ravikanth[MVP]]

Hi

setfocus in body onload event,

document.frmDetails.txtName.focus()

HTH
Ravikanth

>-----Original Message-----
>I have a page with a drop down and several web controls.

The drop down

>is set to postback and it reloads the textboxes based on

the selected

>drop down item. I set the focus to the first textbox

control on the

>client like this:
><script language="vbscript">
>Option Explicit
>....other code
>If Not <%=mbReadOnly%> Then
>document.frmDetails.txtName.focus()
>End If
>....other code
></script>
>This works fine on first page load but when I change the

drop down it

>does reset the focus and you can't even type in the

first textbox

>until you select another textbox first.
>To debug I added a message box right before the set

focus to see if it

>was even getting to this line of code and it works but I

can't leave a

>message box here.
>Any ideas on what could be the problem?
>Thanks in advance for any help,
>Deidre
>.
>

[Deidre]

Thanks for the suggestion but it does the same thing if I put it in a
body onload event.

"Ravikanth[MVP]" <dvravikanth@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<0e1c01c34d31$17c134a0$a301280a@phx.gbl>...

> Hi
>
> setfocus in body onload event,
>
> document.frmDetails.txtName.focus()
>
> HTH
> Ravikanth

[Deidre]

I fixed my problem. I needed to move my set focus command to the window_onload sub:
Sub Window_OnLoad()
If Not <%=mbReadOnly%> Then
document.frmDetails.txtName.focus()
End If
End Sub

Deidre