Cursor in Form

**Grant Wagner** · Jul 23 '05, 04:32 PM

Re: Cursor in Form

<socialism001@y ahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1105550178 .671557.120490@ f14g2000cwb.goo glegroups.com.. .[color=blue]
> How would I get the focus command to work using the code below. I'm
> trying to place the cursor in the stnum field when the user opens the
> form. Thanks Chris
>
> print $query->start_form;
>
> print $query->textfield(
> -name=>'-stnum',
> -default=>'',
> -size=>14);
>
> print $query->textfield(
> -name=>'~stnm',
> -default=>'',
> -size=>40);[/color]

Setting the focus to an input isn't a property of the input, it's a
method called (usually when the page loads):

<body onload="documen t.forms['yourForm'].elements['stnum'].focus();">

or

<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function()
{
document.forms['yourForm'].elements['stnum'].focus();
}
</script>
</head>

or endless variations of the two mechanisms above.

--
Grant Wagner <gwagner@agrico reunited.com>
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**socialism001@yahoo.com** · Jul 23 '05, 04:34 PM

Re: Cursor in Form

Thanks that did exactly what I needed.

Chris

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