Text field losing focus

[gabrielAllen]

I have a page that has a try-catch and alerts the user if a certain criteria isn't met. This criteria is determined with server-side javascript that is 3rd party code, which cannot be modified.

Anyway, when loading the page, the first text-box should maintain focus after load and any alerts pop, but it does not. Anyway I can force this?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Yes - explicitly call its focus method right after the alert statement.

Hope this helps,
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[gabrielAllen]

Is this what you mean?

...
}catch(e)
 {
    alert('Unable to connect.');
    [b]document.formName.elementName.focus();[/b]
 }

If so, I tried this and didn't work.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Can you post your full code (or a cut-down test harness)? You should be able to do this, so I can only imagine some other problem in your code is stopping this.

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[gabrielAllen]

Ok, I will do that. In the meantime, the page in questions calls functions from another *.js that is server-side and returns values that the page-level scripts use. Will this jumping around cause the problem?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

It shouldn't do. Maybe your onload function is being overwritten by another, and so never getting called?

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