How do I set the default button and the focus in a changepassword control? RSS

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  MDCragg

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  How do I set the default button and the focus in a changepassword control?

  Sep 13, 2007 11:50 AM|LINK

  Hi,

  I've been struggling with this.  I want to set the continue button as the default and the currentpassword textbox as the focus in a changepassword control.  I keep getting null reference errors though.  Here is my code with several versions that I tried with none of them working:

   

  Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load

  If Not IsPostBack Then

   

  Dim PwdChg As ChangePasswordPwdChg = CType(Me.LoginView1.FindControl("ChangePassword1"), ChangePassword)

   

  Page.Form.DefaultButton = PwdChg.FindControl("ChangePasswordContainerID$ChangePasswordPushButton").UniqueID

  Dim CurrentPassword As TextBox

  CurrentPassword = CType(PwdChg.FindControl("ChangePasswordContainerID$CurrentPassword"), TextBox)

  CurrentPassword.Focus()

  End If

   

  end sub

  I also tried these variations on the code but they did not work:

  (...for default button)

   

   

  Page.Form.DefaultButton = PwdChg.FindControl("ChangePasswordContainer$ChangePasswordPushButton").UniqueID

  Page.Form.DefaultButton = PwdChg.FindControl("ChangePasswordPushButton").UniqueID

   

  (...for focus)

   

  CurrentPassword = CType(PwdChg.FindControl("ChangePasswordTemplateContainerID$CurrentPassword"), TextBox)

  CurrentPassword = CType(PwdChg.ChangePasswordTemplateContainer.FindControl("CurrentPassword"), TextBox)

  CurrentPassword = CType(PwdChg.ChangePasswordTemplateContainer.NamingContainer.FindControl("CurrentPassword"), TextBox)

   

  Any help anybody can offer is appreciated.  Thank you in advance...MDCragg

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  LockTar

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  Re: How do I set the default button and the focus in a changepassword control?

  Mar 24, 2009 12:01 AM|LINK

  Hello,

  I had this problem aswell. I solved it 3 min ago :).

  The thing that I did to solve it is as follow.

  1. <div mce_keep="true">Convert the control to a template.</div>
  2. <div mce_keep="true">Place as first control in your changepasswordtemplate a panel.</div>
  3. <div mce_keep="true">set the defaultbutton to ChangePasswordPushButton</div>
  4. <div mce_keep="true">Place the end tag of the panel just before the closing tag of the changepasswordtemplate</div>

  The code:
   

  <asp:ChangePassword ID="ChangePassword1" runat="server">
              <ChangePasswordTemplate>
                  <asp:Panel ID="m_pnlChangePassword" runat="server" DefaultButton="ChangePasswordPushButton">
  
  
                      //The controls to change your password
  
  
                  </asp:Panel>
              </ChangePasswordTemplate>
          </asp:ChangePassword>

   

  Some other tips:

  To set focus to the control, Set in your page_load the following:

  ChangePassword1.Focus();

   

  Want to see your errormessages in a validationsummary??
  Place a validationsummary just beyond the closing tag of the changepassword control. Don't place it inside it because then you get errors after changing your password. (error comes just between password change button click and opening the completion step)

  Code:
   

  </asp:Panel> 
              </ChangePasswordTemplate>
          </asp:ChangePassword>
                  
          <asp:ValidationSummary ID="ValidationSummary1" runat="server" ValidationGroup="ChangePassword1" />

   With Css you can let it look like one control. It work for me :-)
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  LockTar

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  Re: How do I set the default button and the focus in a changepassword control?

  Mar 24, 2009 12:02 AM|LINK

  Sorry.. double post of solution because of loading error on this forum....

  • Edited by LockTar on Mar 24, 2009 12:04 AM