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Topic: Set Focus

Posted By: rcalvert
Subject: Set Focus
Date Posted: 11 August 2003 at 5:32pm

Can anybody tell me how to make the cursor go straight to the first form field without having to click it like on google.

many thanks in advance

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Posted By: Mikael
Date Posted: 12 August 2003 at 1:41am

If you have a form named "frmSubmit" and a textfeild named "txtFullName" then you just make a javascript that loads on startup:

Put this function in the <head> tag:

function giveFocus() {
document.frmSubmit.txtFullName.focus();
}

Put this in the bodytag:

This will do it...

Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 12 August 2003 at 8:47am

can be even more generic than that

function giveFocus() {
document.forms[0][0].focus();
}

will give focus to the first form's first field (as long as its a field type that accepts focus of course)

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Posted By: zMaestro
Date Posted: 12 August 2003 at 3:41pm

or u can just add this code after the filed:

<Script>document.yourform.yourfield.focus()</Script>

Posted By: rcalvert
Date Posted: 12 August 2003 at 4:14pm

Thanks everyone i don't know why i didn't just ask beforethe scripts work great thanks