Stupid question

wayne3503 · 08-06-2007, 05:35 PM

Ok this is a stupid question but I am drawing a blank and im sure it is HTML related and not JS. Anyway what I am trying to remember is, how do I set the cursor to be in a text box in a form when the page loads?
Thanks alot for the help

coothead · 08-06-2007, 06:36 PM

Hi there wayne3503,

does this help...

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload=function() {
   document.forms[0][0].focus();
 }
</script>

</head>
<body>

<form action="#">
<div>
<input type="text"/>
</div>
</form>

</body>
</html>

coothead

wayne3503 · 08-06-2007, 07:12 PM

OMG coot can I not get rid of you? Not that I want to, this is crazy8

thanks coot....again

coothead · 08-06-2007, 07:23 PM

Hi there wayne3503 a.k.a. crazy8,

Quote:

...can I not get rid of you?

You could try putting out a contract on me?

Don't you know anyone from the mob?

coothead

wayne3503 · 08-06-2007, 07:26 PM

actually...in highschool i knew a student who was in russsian mob....anyway thank you for the help ill give it a try and see if it helps. It does look like what i think I need. The sad thing is I have done it before and cant find the code where I thought I had used it.
Though I thought it was something that got inserted into the <body> tag. Guess I was wrong...

coothead · 08-06-2007, 07:42 PM

Hi there crazy Wayne,

Quote:

I thought it was something that got inserted into the <body> tag. Guess I was wrong.

No, you were not wrong.
It is just better practice to remove to remove javascript event handlers from the markup.

coothead

p.s. I will have to keep my open for Russians from now on. Don't seem to get that many in my neck of the woods, though.

effpeetee · 08-07-2007, 11:29 AM

We don't want to Russia, but if you Moscow.................