How to set the focus to an InputText element?

Question

Using the example from the Microsoft docs, I\'m trying to programmatically set the focus to an input element.

Unfortunately, the example uses a standard

Answer 1

In .NET5 it will be much simpler:

Set focus

NOTE: this feature was introduced in .NET5 Preview 8 so might change until the final release!

Also worth mentioning that in .NET5 RC1 JavaScript isolation was introduced via JS Module export/import. So if you still need to use JS interop do not pollute window object.

Update: .NET 5 was released and this feature works unchanged.

Also found a cool Nuget package which can do some convenient JS tricks for you e.g.: focusing previously active element without having a @ref to it. See docs here.