Here's what we do. We only code for IE 5.0, so I don't know if this will
work with Netscape.
We use this line:
<body onload="WindowOnLoad()">
Then we code a javascript function named WindowOnLoad like this:
function WindowOnLoad()
{
document.frmName.btnName.focus();
return;
}
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yoganarasimha G [SMTP:yoganarasimha.g@m...]
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 10:19 PM
> To: HTML Code Clinic
> Subject: [html_code_clinic] RE: setting textfield focus onLoad
>
> u cannot use onLoad() as this is executed before the form is rendered.
> u can do it by including following script at the end of ur page..
> < script language="javascript">
> document.theForm.theFieldName.focus()
> < script >
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Naima Sarfa [mailto:wrox@p...]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 8:16 AM
> To: HTML Code Clinic
> Subject: [html_code_clinic] setting textfield focus onLoad
>
>
> I'm having some trouble with this...
>
> I want a page to focus on a specific textfield when it is loaded. I
> tried
> the following code: onLoad=document.theForm.theFieldName.focus() ,in the
>
> documents BODY tag where theForm is the name of the form and
> theFieldName
> is the name of the textfield, but that only brings up an error
> message...
>
> Anyone? =)
>
> Naima
> $subst('Email.Unsub').
>
> $subst('Email.Unsub').
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