How to remove the focus from a TextBox in WinForms

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I need to remove the focus from several TextBoxes  I tried using   textBox1 Focused   false    Its ReadOnly property value is true   I then tried setting the focus on the form  so as to remove it from all the TextBoxes  but this also fails to work   this Focus      and the function returns false when a textbox is selected   So  how do I remove the focus from a TextBox

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Focus sets the input focus  so setting it to the form won t work because forms don t accept input  Try setting the form s ActiveControl property to a different control  You could also use Select to select a specific control or SelectNextControl to select the next control in the tab order

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I ve found a good alternative  It works best for me  without setting the focus on something else   Try that   private void richTextBox KeyDown object sender  KeyEventArgs e            e SuppressKeyPress   true

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Try disabling and enabling the textbox

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You can try  textBox1 Enable   false

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This post lead me to do this   ActiveControl   null    This allows me to capture all the keyboard input at the top level without other controls going nuts

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You can add the following code   this ActiveControl   null     this   form

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A simple solution would be to kill the focus  just create your own class   public class ViewOnlyTextBox   System Windows Forms TextBox          constants for the message sending     const int WM SETFOCUS   0x0007      const int WM KILLFOCUS   0x0008       protected override void WndProc ref Message m            if m Msg    WM SETFOCUS  m Msg   WM KILLFOCUS           base WndProc  ref m

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If all you want is the optical effect that the textbox has no blue selection all over its contents  just select no text   textBox Log SelectionStart   0  textBox Log SelectionLength   0  textBox Log Select      After this  when adding content with  Text           no blue selection will be shown

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Try this one   First set up tab order   Then in form load event we can send a tab key press  programmatically to application  So that application will give focus to 1st contol in the tab order   in form load even write this line   SendKeys Send   TAB       This did work for me

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In the constructor of the Form or UserControl holding the TextBox write  SetStyle ControlStyles Selectable  false     After the InitializeComponent    Source  https   stackoverflow com a 4811938 5750078  Example   public partial class Main   UserControl        public Main                 InitializeComponent            SetStyle ControlStyles Selectable  false

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You need some other focusable control to move the focus to    Note that you can set the Focus to a Label  You might want to consider where you want the  Tab  key to take it next   Also note that you cannot set it to the Form  Container controls like Form and Panel will pass the Focus on to their first child control  Which could be the TextBox you wanted it to move away from

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The way I get around it is to place all my winform controls  I make all labels and non-selecting winform controls as tab order 0  then my first control as tab order 2 and then increment each selectable control s order by 1  so 3  4  5 etc     This way  when my Winforms start up  the first TextBox doesn t have focus

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You can also set the forms activecontrol property to null like  ActiveControl   null

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using System        using System Collections Generic        using System Linq       private void Form1 Load object sender  EventArgs e                FocusOnOtherControl Controls Cast lt Control gt     button1              private void FocusOnOtherControl lt T gt  IEnumerable lt T gt  controls  Control focusOnMe  where T   Control               foreach  var control in controls                        if  control GetType   Equals typeof TextBox                                  control TabStop   false                  control LostFocus    new EventHandler  object sender  EventArgs e    gt                                                             focusOnMe Focus

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you can do this by two method   just make the  TabStop  properties of desired textbox to false now it will not focus even if you have one text field drag two text box   make one visible on which you don t want foucus which is textbox1 make the 2nd one invisible and go to properties of that text field and select        tabindex value to 0 of textbox2    and select the tabindex of your textbox1 to 1 now it will not focus on textbox1

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It seems that I don t have to set the focus to any other elements  On a Windows Phone 7 application  I ve been using the Focus method to unset the Focus of a Textbox   Giving the following command will set the focus to nothing   void SearchBox KeyDown object sender  System Windows Input KeyEventArgs e        if  e Key    Key Enter                Focus              http   msdn microsoft com en-us library system windows forms control focus aspx  It worked for me  but I don t know why didn t it work for you

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using System Windows Input Keyboard ClearFocus

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Please try set TabStop to False for your view control which is not be focused   For eg   txtEmpID TabStop   false

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I made this on my custom control  i done this onFocus    this Parent Focus      So if texbox focused - it instantly focus textbox parent  form  or panel     This is good option if you want to make this on custom control

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Focusing on the label didn t work for me  doing something like label1 Focus   right  the textbox still has focus when loading the form  however trying Velociraptors answer  worked for me  setting the Form s Active control to the label like this   private void Form1 Load object sender  EventArgs e           this ActiveControl   label1

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