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My "onload" function is not working when viewed through Netscape 4

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jaredc

jaredc

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Hi,

I've got a very simple piece of Javascript to set the focus onto a TEXT INPUT field as the page loads:
Code: 
<!--
function focusSize()

{
document.frmQuantity.txtQuantity.focus();
}

-->
which I'm calling from the BODY tag as follows:
Code: 
<body onload=&quot;focusSize()&quot;>
It works fine when the page is viewed through IE but not Netscape 4. This is not really a &quot;life or death problem&quot; but I would like to sort it out if possible. I had thought that maybe there's some other kind of 'onload' command which might be understood by netscape but am not really getting anywhere. Or maybe there's a problem with my javascript? Any thoughts or advice would be most welcome
 
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Your code worked okay for me on Navigator 4.79.
Maybe add a &quot;;&quot; so that it reads <body onload=&quot;focusSize();&quot;>

Mickey
 
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Hi Mickey

Thanks for the advice, and I'm glad to hear that it should be working in Netscape 4.79. I'm actually using Netscape 4.7 and I tried adding in the additional ; as advised but unfortunately no joy!

Cheers
Mike
 
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There's no significant difference between the 2 Netscape sub-versions. What does the code for your form look like? I don't see anything wrong with the code you posted here.
 
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Hi Trollacious
Thanks very much, your question has inspired me to sort out the problem myself! The code I'm using for the FORM is as follows:
Code: 
Response.Write &quot;<FORM NAME=frmQuantity&quot; & lnCounter & &quot; ID=frmQuantity &quot; & lnCounter & &quot; METHOD=GET ACTION=&quot; & chr(34) & &quot;DisplayQuantity.asp&quot; & chr(34) & &quot;>&quot;
I'm including a counter on the FORM NAME/ID to enable a number of FORMs to be created as required. As such the name will never be called 'frmQuantity' and there will always be at least a 'frmQuantity0'. I've amended the Javascript to refer to 'frmQuantity0' and its working fine now (in both Netscape and IE). I'm not really sure how it was previously managing to work through IE though...

Hope this all makes (at least some) sense although it doesn't matter if it doesn't. Thanks once again and I feel a bit of an idiot for not spotting this before.
Cheers
Mike
 
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If you have a txtQuantity element in each form, IE could well be ignoring the document.frmQuantity and just accessing the first txtQuantity element it encounters.
 
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aha, thanks for that trollacious, clever old IE eh?
 
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MikePasty,

you can also bypass the inconsistent form names and access it via index:

document.forms[0].txtQuantity.focus();

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if (!succeed) try();
-jeff
 
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Thanks very much for that also Jemminger, I'm learning all the time!
 
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