Question

The question seems to be basic but I would ask.

Is there a standard way to retain focus on the same field (where user was, before refresh) after page refresh in MVC3.

for simplicity purpose, I will take a simple scenario. scenario is like

I have three controls on a page.

1. a textbox —Name
2. a dropdown —Country)
3. another dropdown—City (which loads cities from server based on the country selected in field 2 and this causes the page to refresh)

What I want,

the focus to be on Country field, after page refresh.

I hope, the question makes sense.

Answer 1

To achieve what you want, just use jQuery’s .focus function (http://api.jquery.com/focus/).

You may want to consider loading your dropdown dynamically through jQuery or jQuery UI so that you don’t get the page refresh.