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Re: CURSOR positioning????? (from mainframer)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clover Andrew)
Mon May 15 04:51:44 2000
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From: Clover Andrew <aclover@1VALUE.com>
To: "'Randy Abner'" <randy.abner@mail.state.ar.us>,
"'www-talk@w3.org'"
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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 10:39:14 +0200
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Randy Abner <randy.abner@mail.state.ar.us> pondered:
> I am needing to position the cursor on the first input field
> when my FORM is first displayed - without the user having to
> point-click to it. I can't find a HTML keyword that
> corresponds to this command.
Nope. Because it is a command, and not really markup, you'll
want to look at a client-side scripting solution. The quick
'n' dirty JavaScript answer would be:
<body onload="document.forms['x'].elements['y'].focus();">
where x and y are the names of the form and input field in
question.
hth
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Andrew Clover
Technical Support
1VALUE.com AG
