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Cursor placement in a form

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dillpick6

dillpick6

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I have a form and when a visitor comes to my page, I want to have their cursor in a certain text box. How would I specifiy this default text box so their cursor is there when they first arrive?
 
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you can use a combination of focus() (javascript) and the tabindex (IE only I believe)

onLoad of the page simply do a
document.form name.field name.focus()

eg:
<body onLoad=&quot;documentmyForm.myText.focus()&quot;>

That will focus the field you specify.

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typo: missing &quot;.&quot;

<body onLoad=&quot;document.myForm.myText.focus()&quot;>

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Do you know of any solutions without java by any chance? I didnt think there would be one, but thank you very much!
 
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[smile]

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