new page - make something active 1

andycape · Jan 30, 2004

on opening a new page how do i make a certain text box or button or whatever active (so if its a text box you can just start typing you dont have to tab or click to the box).

I tried tabIndex, but dosnt work.

thanx

simonchristieis · Jan 30, 2004

try this

<body onload="javascript:document.forms(0).elements(0).focus()">

this will focus the cursor on the first element on the first form on the page

andycape · Jan 30, 2004

thanks, thats helpfull for one of my pages, but the other the element number will constantly be different, is there a way to do it by calling the textbox by name ?

andycape · Jan 30, 2004

actually i could use that method, but is there a way to say "so many elements from the total"

ie : if there are 50 elements on the page, i want to focus on 12 from the total so it would be element 38, and next time their are 60 elements so it would be 48 ?

or am i talking in circles ;-)

simonchristieis · Jan 30, 2004

you can change the form name or the element name like this.

<body onload="javascript:document.forms("formName&quot

.elements("elementName&quot

.focus()">

andycape · Jan 30, 2004

excellent

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