Maintaining transparency with sub-form text-box

[GraeagleBill]

I've created an example depicting my question. If one has a form with continuous record sub-forms where the text-box controls stipulate a transparent background, how does one maintain the transparency of the background when the main form opens? As one can see in the pic, the first text-box has a white background.

[ranman256]

You can't on a form.
all boxes must be the same.
unless the top boxes Are the header labels, and transparents are the fields.

you can in a report.

[GraeagleBill]

There's only one (1) text-box control in the sub-form. The problem is that when the RecordSource loads the text-box corresponding to the 1st record has it's backstyle changed from transparancy to white, as pictured in my original post.

[Micron]

Add a textbox. Set back style transparent; border transparent, width/height 0. On open, set focus to it. If you're allowing tab stops on the other controls, you may want to set this one's tab stop to no so that the cursor doesn't disappear if user attempts to tab to it.

[GraeagleBill]

OUTSTANDING! I did think about where I could SetFocus but it never occurred to me to create an essentially invisible 0x0 "target".
Thanks,
Bill

[Micron]

NP. Glad it helped.