How To set Focus in TEXTBOX using JQUERY

You can use like this

var txtBox=document.getElementById("txtUserName" );
txtBox.focus();

Change txtUserName to your Asp.net textbox ClientID

Thanks

In addition to the answer of Mohamad4love try this to clear the textbox:

$("#<%=txtDate.ClientID%>").val('');

hope it helps :)

yes me also faced such an issue
So I played a little trick with JQuery to set the focus correctly

In normal case just putting the $("#yourtextbox").focus() should work, but still its not working properly, change ur code to

focus on some other control before the alert, and after alert, keep the focus back to the text box,

$("input[id$='txtDate']").blur(function ()
      {
          if(!checkDate($("txtDate").val()))
          {
            $("#someothercontrol").focus();
            alert("Invalid Date");
            $('#txtDate').focus();
            $("#txtDate").val("");
            
           }
      });

Check whether this will solve this issue eventhough this is not a right approach

can you update your HTML file.It ll very helpful to answer. actually blur is very powerful event in jquery, you might or may setting focus on several filed in your checkDate
method. it loose focus while working with several field.

i dont kwon whether you by mistake written

if(!checkDate($("txtDate").val()))

, coz you have missed # before your textfield id..
$("#txtDate")



mean while you can try this.

$(function(){
alert(checkDate($("txtDate").val()));
//if alert will not show <big>true</big> then rest of code work

if(!checkDate($("#txtDate").val()))
          {
            $("#someothercontrol").focus();
            alert("Invalid Date");
            $("#txtDate").val("");
            //first clear the value
            $('#txtDate').focus();
            
           }

});

If you are using ajax or some server side validation,
it wont work you have to aply some little tricks like for ajax you have to synchronize ajax method before client side validation.

and you can also use setinterval or settimeout method of java script for setting focus. please ckeck it

setTimeout(function() {
            $('#txtDate').focus();
        }, 0);

Thnks,
deepak

Hi,I think you are doing wrong ID selection.
Try bellow, code I replaced selector's selection.I think it will work.

$("input[id$='txtDate']").blur(function () {
var txtVal = $("input[id$='txtDate']").val();
if (!checkDate(txtVal)) {
alert("Invalid Date");
$("input[id$='txtDate']").val("");
$("input[id$='txtDate']").focus();
}
});