ASP.NET Text Box doesn't get focus when page is redirected from a Silverlight page

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I am stuck in a very strange issue that happens in the Chrome browser only.

I have a Silverlight page with a button on it. On clicking that button I want to open an ASPX page with a text box on it having attribute autofocus applied. But whenever I redirect from Silverlight page to ASPX page, the text box is never get focused on Chrome browser. Did anyone face such issue before?

Below are the version information associated

Google Chrome : 41.0.2272.89 m
.NET Framework : 4.5.1
Silverlight : 5.0

Code Snippet Silverlight ( MAIN.XAML File)

XML

<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" removed="White">
        <Button Content="Go to Default page" Click="Button_Click" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="161,131,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="156"/>

    </Grid>

Code Snippet Silverlight ( MAIN.XAML.CS File )

C#

private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage.Window.Navigate(new       Uri("Default.aspx", UriKind.Relative));
        }

Code Snippet DEFAULT.ASPX page

XML

<div>
        <asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtName" ClientIDMode="Static" autofocus/>
    </div>

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Posted 15-Mar-15 23:14pm

Amit@Bas

Updated 15-Mar-15 23:16pm

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Solution 2

Seems like its an existing bug in Google Chrome. Thanks to Kornfeld providing me theread given below.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/EzCB8BXeDxQ[^]

Posted 16-Mar-15 1:39am

Amit@Bas

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-15T23:35:00

Solution 1

You have two options:
1. do it from the code behind...https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.control.focus(v=vs.110).aspx[^]
2. Set default focus property of the form element...https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.htmlcontrols.htmlform.defaultfocus(v=vs.110).aspx[^]

Posted 15-Mar-15 23:35pm

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

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Amit@Bas 16-Mar-15 5:52am

Thanks for your answer Kornfeld, I tried both of these options after reviewing the above given links but none of them seems to be working for me :(

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 16-Mar-15 6:14am

Can you see what control DOES have the focus? You maybe have more than one in which case the last (in tab order) will have it...

Amit@Bas 16-Mar-15 6:31am

If I see this in Chrome, then I don't see any control which is having focus on it. In my case I got only single text box on ASPX page. Even if I keep on hitting TAB, none of the control get focus on the page. But when I click on chrome tab then the text box gets focus which is weird. On other browsers it works like charm.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 16-Mar-15 6:35am

So Chrome itself is out of focus not the text box...Are you saying that other browser got focused in the same situation?

Amit@Bas 16-Mar-15 6:39am

Yes Kornfeld, exactly this is the problem here. Other browsers make the text box focused in the same scenario except that of Chrome.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 16-Mar-15 6:43am

Curious....
Check the discussion here, it may help: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/EzCB8BXeDxQ

Amit@Bas 16-Mar-15 7:05am

Thanks for this thread Kornfeld. Seems like its an existing bug in Google Chrome :)

Amit@Bas 16-Mar-15 7:13am

Kornfled, is there anything that we can do here at ASP.NET end to make this work?

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 16-Mar-15 7:16am

No. I think not...

Amit@Bas 16-Mar-15 7:23am

Thanks for your big help Kornfeld :)