Give Login Focus
I greatly expanded my knowledge of Community Server and especially CSS by trying my hand at building a custom theme for the Community Server extravaganza last week. While working on my entry [VoteForMeNow! :) Look for OOTO2K7], I found a number of things I wanted to do. One of them was to put the window focus on the username field when you hit the login.aspx page.
In your typical ASP.Net site, you can drop a Page.Form.DefaultFocus = txtUsername.ClientID; in your page_load and that would give focus where you want. The problem with login.aspx is that the login form is a templated control and you don't have access to "username".
This was a little trickier than I expected and I'm fairly certain I haven't done it the best way but here's a way that works. Why don't you fix it and leave me some feedback :).
The login form for CS in the common dir of your theme so for most of you it's probably something like /themes/default/common/login.aspx.
Add this block to the top of your page above the <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="bodyContent" runat="server"> and when your page renders, a focus script will be added to put your user's cursor there in the username field where they can type+tab+type+enter and they're signed in.
<script language="C#" runat="server">protected override void OnPreRender(
EventArgs e)
{
UsernameSeekAndFocus(Page.Form);
base.OnPreRender(e);
}
private void UsernameSeekAndFocus(
Control parent)
{
foreach (
Control child
in parent.Controls)
{
if (child.ID ==
"username")
{
Page.Form.DefaultFocus = child.ClientID;
return;
}
if (child.HasControls())
UsernameSeekAndFocus(child);
}
}
</script>