#1,070 – Event Sequence for Keyboard Focus Events

Events raised by user interface elements that are related to keyboard focus are:

• PreviewLostKeyboardFocus  (tunneling)
• PreviewGotKeyboardFocus  (tunneling)
• LostKeyboardFocus  (bubbling)
• GotKeyboardFocus  (bubbling)

When keyboard focus changes from one control to another, the events fired by the controls are in the order listed above.

Suppose that we have two TextBox controls in a StackPanel, which is contained within a Window.  If the first TextBox has keyboard focus and the user causes the second TextBox to receive focus, the sequence of events is as follows:

• Window fires PreviewLostKeyboardFocus
• StackPanel fires PreviewLostKeyboardFocus
• TextBox #1 fires PreviewLostKeyboardFocus
• Window fires PreviewGotKeyboardFocus
• StackPanel fires PreviewGotKeyboardFocus
• TextBox #2 fires PreviewGotKeyboardFocus
• TextBox #1 fires LostKeyboardFocus
• StackPanel fires LostKeyboardFocus
• Window fires LostKeyboardFocus
• TextBox #2 fires GotKeyboardFocus
• StackPanel fires GotKeyboardFocus
• Window fires GotKeyboardFocus