cursor and text box

ABJ · Sep 3, 2000

Hey guys,
hope you can help - I have built a page with a text box and i would like the cursor is flashing in that box when you enter the page. So you don't have to click then type then press enter.
If this is possible - any help would be very much appreciated
Regards Al

sriram · Sep 4, 2000

In the body tag onload call a javascript function to achieve this.

<body onload="doFocus()">

<form name="frmName">

<input type="text" name="text1">

<script language="javaScript">

// start function doFocus
// this function get the focus of the cursor to the text box

function doFocus()
{
document.frmName.text1.focus();
document.frmName.text1.select();
}
// end of function doFocus()

</script>

</form>

</body>

// you can try the above.....

ABJ · Sep 4, 2000

Thanks mate

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