How Do I Give a Textbox Focus in Silverlight?

Question

In my Silverlight application, I can\'t seem to bring focus to a TextBox control. On the recommendation of various posts, I\'ve set the IsTabStop property to True and I\'m

Answer 1

Indeed an annoying beheviour. I found a simple straightforward solution:

(VB code)

    Me.Focus()
    Me.UpdateLayout()

    Me.tbx_user_num.Focus()
    Me.tbx_user_num.UpdateLayout()

Each element here is essential, as per my project at least (VB2010 SL4 OutOfBrowser).

Credit to : http://www.dotnetspark.com/kb/1792-set-focus-to-textbox-silverlight-3.aspx

Answer 2

I would try adding a DispatcherTimer on the UserLoaded event that executes the Focus method a few milliseconds after the whole control has loaded; maybe the problem is there.

Answer 3

My profile is not good enough to comment on @Jim B-G's answer but what worked for me was to add a handler for the Loaded event on the RichTextBox and inside that handler add

System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage.Plugin.Focus();
<YourTextBox>.UpdateLayout()
<YourTextBox>.Focus();

However, it only worked on IE and FF. To get it work on Chrome and Safari, scroll to the bottom of this