>Hi all, I have a form with a TableLayoutPanel occupying one half of the form, the panel contains lots of custom usercontrols, within the user controls I hook up some events which change the appearance of the control when it is selected or loses focus ( I change their back colour to red when they have focus and reset it to default when they don't) all works as expected while the panel / user control has focus, however if I click on a control outside of the panel the events still fire - which is not what I want as I want the user to know which control in the panel has focus ( the user controls are datagrids containg sets of interest rates ) I hope this makes sense ! so my question is , how can I restrict the events so they only fire when the panel has focus ?

Haven't worked with WinForms for some time but I think that when a user control loses focus you could check whether focus is still on a control in the containing panel (Control.ContainsFocus property). If true then reset to default, if not then leave the child control red....