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Old January 27th, 2001, 12:08 PM
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Hi,

I have a form with 3 text fields.

How do I position the cursor in the first field automatically when the form is displayed, without having to click on the field or hit tab.

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Old January 29th, 2001, 06:26 PM
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In the <body> tag put this bit of javascript:

onLoad="document.forms.FORMNAME.FIELDNAME.focus();"
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Old January 30th, 2001, 12:09 AM
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Cool
Thanks,

That did the trick
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