Set the focus on a textbox in xaml wpf

Question

Despite some posts on this forum and others i cannot find something that tells me how to set the focus on a TextBox.

I have a userControl with many labe

Answer 1

FocusManager was not in intellisense and this confused me a bit. I just typed the entire attribute and it worked.

FocusManager.FocusedElement="{Binding ElementName=MyTextBox}"

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Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 version 14.0.23107.0/C#/WPF

Answer 2

Usage: local:FocusManager.FocusOnLoad="True"

    public class FocusManager
    {
        public static readonly DependencyProperty FocusOnLoad = DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached(
            "FocusOnLoad",
            typeof(bool),
            typeof(FocusManager),
            new UIPropertyMetadata(false, new PropertyChangedCallback(OnValueChanged))
            );

        private static void OnValueChanged(DependencyObject sender, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
        {
            if (!(sender is Control control))
                return;

            if ((bool) e.NewValue == false)
                return;

            control.Loaded += (s, e) => control.Focus();
        }

        public static bool GetFocusOnLoad(DependencyObject d) => (bool) d.GetValue(FocusOnLoad);

        public static void SetFocusOnLoad(DependencyObject d, bool value) => d.SetValue(FocusOnLoad, value);
    }

Answer 3

You can use the FocusManager.FocusedElement attached property for this purpose. Here's a piece of code that set the focus to TxtB by default.

<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" FocusManager.FocusedElement="{Binding ElementName=TxtB}">
    <TextBox x:Name="TxtA" Text="A" />
    <TextBox x:Name="TxtB" Text="B" />
</StackPanel>

You can also use TxtB.Focus() in your code-behind if you don't want to do this in XAML.