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Curser in form object

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travmak

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I'm trying to automaticaly place a curser in a textbox in my form when the page loads. I don't know how. Please help.
 
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add this to you body tag:

onLoad="text_box_name.focus()"
 
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I tried it and it didn't work.

here is my body tag
<body onLoad=&quot;fname.focus()&quot;>

here is input tag.
<input type=&quot;textbox&quot; name=&quot;fname&quot; value = &quot;<%= request.form(&quot;fname&quot;)%>&quot;>
 
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it seems not to work in NS. maybe thats why, what browser are you using?
 
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Code: 
<body onLoad=&quot;document.formname.inputname.focus()&quot;>
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someone knowledge ends where
someone else knowledge starts
 
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You got to it before I did. I just figured it out. Thanks for the help
 
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was your text box in a form? if not that would be fine else you would have to reference the form first....
 
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