[thelist] simple question (I hope): chat

Theodore Serbinski need-4-speed-ski at erols.com
Sat Jul 15 17:41:49 CDT 2000


> Hi, I'm making a quick and easy chatroom since my boss is taking away the
> ICQ's and I need to be able to chat with my friends right?
> so:
> 1: how do I make a page in a frameset refresh to the bottom of the page
> (now every time it refreshes you start at the top of the page)
> 2: how do I make the cursor go straight to a textbox so you don't need to
> click on it.

1. Is this going to automatically refresh the page? Couldn't you just put an
anchor at the bottom of your page:
 <a name="bottom"></a>
and than do in javascript:
 location.reload(myhtmlfile.html#bottom);

Should work. I'm a little shaky tho on the syntax of the javascript part but
if it doesn't work you could might want to try (or do this instead of the
javascript):
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;
http://www.mysite.com/icq.html#bottom">

Just some ideas hopefully one of those will work.

2. Start with:
 <body onload="findform();">

And using javascript:
  function findform() {
	document.yourformname.youritem.focus();
	document.yourformname.youritem.select();
  }

Hopefully those should work. :)

-ted





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