Set the focus on a textbox in xaml wpf

Question

Hi

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

I have a userControl with many labels and textBoxes.When the form is loaded I want the a particular textBox to have the focus. I have set the tabIndex but that didnt seem to work.

Any suggestions

Answer 1

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.