Giving first line of form focus on page load [Archive]

tsbarnes

01-05-2003, 01:23 AM

Hey everyone,

This may seem like a very basic question. I was wondering how I can force the first field in a form to have focus when a form page is loaded.

I want to do this so that when a user accesses a page they can just start typing away and do not have to use there mouse or the tab buttom to give the form forcus.

Thanks in advance,

Thomas S. Barnes

Borgtex

01-05-2003, 01:46 AM

put this in the <body> tag

<body onload="document.yourformname.thefieldname.focus()"