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glitch13

Dec 12th, 2000, 06:23 PM

how do you set focus on load to a certain form input object when the page loads?

Ianpbaker

Dec 13th, 2000, 02:49 AM

Hi glitch13

use the following code to set the focus

<BODY onload="document.formname.inputname.focus();">

hope this helps

Ian

glitch13

Dec 21st, 2000, 06:29 PM

thanks, it worked. just out of curiosity, was that html or java?

Ianpbaker

Dec 21st, 2000, 06:35 PM

Hi glitch13

That was javascript