placing the cursor at the end of a form filed.

[Steven_Smith]

Hello!

document.formname.formfield.focus()

will place the cursor at the begining of the form field. Is there a way to place it at the end?

Steve

[whammy]

Hmm... not that I know of, cross-browser at any rate. I think there is a way to do it in IE ONLY, but I tend to avoid proprietary client-side code on principle, therefore I never learned it.

In this type of case, I would usually either focus on the field and then select() everything, or delete the invalid entry and then focus on the field.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, though!

[Steven_Smith]

In IE Only Eh?

Maybe I will just select the form field, all the user has to do is tap '->' and the cursor will go to the end.

Deleting the field would be good if its bad data, but in this case it the data is fine. I wrote an autosave feature for a large form, after 3 mins it prompts you to save (submit) your form. then it reloads the page and places the cursor in the form field that they are using. I was having problems with the form expiring.

Thanks
Steve :)

[Steven_Smith]

Maybe there is a way to force press the users '->' key. Hmmm.. Probably not!

[Borgtex]

That's silly, but will work on IE and NS6+

with(document.formname.formfield){focus();value=value}

[Steven_Smith]

Thanks Borgtex, that worked perfectly!!!!

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