Setting Focus on another control on button click

Question

When I click on a button it will keep selected what can I do to deselect the button after click? See the image bellow:

Button start is selected how to remove the selection after click?

Possible duplicate of [How to remove the focus from a TextBox in WinForms?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1140250/how-to-remove-the-focus-from-a-textbox-in-winforms) — gmiley, Jun 02 '16 at 11:04

Raktim Biswas · Answer 1 · 2016-09-02T12:04:29.537

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private void btnStart_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    btnStop.Focus(); //setting the focus on Stop Button

    // ...your code
}

ActiveControl Property

private void btnStart_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    this.ActiveControl = btnStop; //setting the focus on Stop Button

    // ...your code
}

SelectNextControl Method

private void btnStart_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Control p;
    p = ((Button)sender).Parent;
    p.SelectNextControl(ActiveControl, true, true, true, true);

    // ...your code
}

edited Sep 02 '16 at 12:04

answered Jun 02 '16 at 11:25

Raktim Biswas

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I'd like to add something. When embedding UserControl in TabControl requesting focus by userCtrl.Focus() always returns false and focus isn't transferred. But setting this.ActiveControl works flawlessly. – baderman Dec 03 '17 at 18:55

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 02 '16 at 10:57

You need some other focusable control to move the focus to like your StopButton.

you can set btnStop.Focus () ;

You can also set the forms activecontrol property to null like

 this.ActiveControl = null;

Or using Tab order after set up order :

SendKeys.Send("{TAB}");

Setting Focus on another control on button click

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