Focus on a text box in user contol, sitting on aspx page

[taraf21]

Hi, I hope someone can help me. The solution is probably very simple, but I'm not very good with Javascript and need some help with this problem...

I have a user control LoginTable that has my username and password fields on it. This user control sits on a web page, Login. (It's set up this way because the viewstate toggles for the logintable.) Anyway, all I'm trying to do is set the focus on the username textbox. I have a user control base class for all my control methods. I've tried putting the below code there and calling it from my user control, but it's not working. If I quick watch the control, it shows the textbox name, but when the aspx page loads, it doesn't set the focus. I also tried putting a call on my aspx page, but it just returns a Null Ref error.

I know I'm probably not explaining this incorrectly, but if anyone can help, I would REALLY appreciate it!!

Here's the code in my UserControlBase Class:

 

Public Sub FocusOnControl(ByVal ctrl As Control)
       ' Define the JavaScript function for the specified control.
       Dim focusScript As String = "<script language='javascript'>" & _
         "document.getElementById('" + ctrl.ClientID & _
         "').focus();</script>"

       ' Add the JavaScript code to the page.
       Page.RegisterStartupScript("FocusScript", focusScript)
End Sub

 

Here's my call in my user control.

 

Private Overloads Sub SetupControl(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
       'Put user code to initialize the page here  
       Dim UserName As Control = txtUsernamePage
       SetVisibility()
       FocusOnControl(UserName)

   End Sub

 

Thanks again!

Tara

[kahlua001]

When the page is rendered and you view the html, what does the printed javascript say?