[thelist] Simple HTML form question

Tom Dell'Aringa pixelmech at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 3 15:51:45 CST 2003


--- Aaron Cole <awcole72 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to have the cursor display in the text field on a
> search form when the page is first opened?
>
> I've noticed that the form on Google's search results page does
> this, but not the original search page.

Not sure what you mean my the second part, but you simply need to set
focus to the field you want the cursor in:

myForm.elements["myField"].focus()

will do the trick.

HTH

Tom

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