onLoad move to START of text field

Microbe · Jul 14, 2006

Hey folks,

I have a <body onLoad()) that pops the cursor into a text field.

The minor annoyance is that because there is existing text it drops the cursor at the end of the field.

Is there anyway to make it fake a home key press so the cursor is positions at the left of the text?

Thanks in advance.

Steve Davis

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theniteowl · Jul 14, 2006

This works in IE

Code:

var input = document.getElementById('myfield');
var range = input.createTextRange();
  range.collapse(true);
  range.moveEnd('character', 0);
  range.moveStart('character', 0);
  range.select();

First you get the object then you create a text range for the object.
range.collapse will clear any previous settings for the range and the moveEnd and moveStart will set the positions that the text range will cover. If you set it at start of 0 and end of 5 then the first 5 characters will be highlighted but by setting both numbers to 0 the cursor position is at 0 and nothing is highlighted.

I do not know if the same holds true for other browsers.

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onLoad move to START of text field

Microbe

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