focusing on a radio button

[stemitch2000]

Hi, I have a basic form, with some field as radio buttons. How do I give focus to a radio button once the user has pressed submit and the radio button is not checked (i.e. the user has not agreed with the terms and conditions).

thank you
Steven

 

[tlhawkins]

I've always used:

document.forms[FormName].elements[FormField].focus();

to set focus on any form element.
Hope it works for you.

Travis Hawkins
BeachBum Software
travis@cfm2asp.com

http://www.beachbumsoftware.com

 

[Chopstik]

An example, where FormName is the name of the form and RadioButton is the name of the radio button:

document.FormName.RadioButton[0].checked

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--Dou

 

[Chopstik]

Sorry, to correct:

document.FormName.RadioButton[0].checked

Though tlhawkins beat me to it...

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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
--Dou

 

[Chopstik]

Grrrr... (I know you already have the answer, but want to actually at least pretend I know what I'm doing today.) The really corrected version, as previously demonstrated by tlhawkins:

document.FormName.RadioButton[0].focus()

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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
--Dou