Hi Bryan

Do you insert the macro directly on the template or through the content section in a rich text editor?

And could you perhaps post a snippet of the code in your file?

/Jan

Thank you for your quick response! The macro is on the template. Here's the code that is not working, excerpted from the user control's code-behind file:

protected void Page_PreRender(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    switch (NewWebAccountWizard.ActiveViewIndex)
    {
        case 0:
            Page.SetFocus(FirstTimeAnswer);
            Page.Form.DefaultButton = FirstTimeNextButton.UniqueID;
            break;
        case 1:
            Page.SetFocus(NewAccountSurnameTextBox);
            Page.Form.DefaultButton = NewAccountNextButton.UniqueID;
            break;
        case 2:
            Page.SetFocus(ConfirmDetailsNextButton);
            Page.Form.DefaultButton = ConfirmDetailsNextButton.UniqueID;
            break;
    }
}

Basically, NewWebAccountWizard is a multiview, and depending on which view is active after the user control's logic has executed, it sets the focus and default button right before it's rendered.

I still haven't been able to resolve this issue, but I've found some additional clues.

When I place the user control on a regular ASPX page, the focus gets set correctly, but in an Umbraco page it no longer works.

On a regular ASPX page, the following JavaScript reference is automatically generated:

<script src="/WebResource.axd?d=W5qNQ0304KSxjOdxTSWb-jDDppYWBRdyf4JiCLY6Cor1ICcie99Z5QxrYafHEQH4G3vxRBGr0m5AjfeV7QaI_yYorapuBawuLTdJvK3YVx81&t=634267145163241050" type="text/javascript"></script>

Along with this, at the bottom of the form:

WebForm_AutoFocus('ctl02_EmailTextBox');

But when placed on an Umbraco page as a macro, the same user control omits this code.

I thought that the problem might be due to the user control being placed in an ASP Content control, so I created a simple master page with a single ContentPlaceHolder, and I placed my user control in the Content control of a child page. It worked there without a hitch.

Solved! After much hair pulling and nail biting.

My user control had periods in the filename, like this:

LibraryProject.UserControls.LoginForm.ascx

When I remove all but the last period...

LibraryProjectUserControlsLoginForm.ascx

...the expected JavaScript is generated on the page, and SetFocus() works as intended.

Now the question remains for Umbraco developers: Why do extra periods in a user control's filename throw off ASP.NET's built-in JavaScript when used as an Umbraco macro?

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