[ic] Form field auto focus

Fri Jan 11 13:17:26 EST 2008

On Jan 11, 2008 11:20 AM, DB <DB at m-and-d.com> wrote:
>  >> I want to have the cursor automatically positioned into a certain form
> >> field when my page loads. I've found that this can be done using
> >>
> >> <body onLoad="FormName.FieldName.focus();">
> >>
> >> where FormName is the name of the form and FieldName is the name of the
> >> desire field.
> >>
> >> I'm having trouble getting this to work in my IC page where my form's
> >> name is [area search]. Does anyone have a suggestion?
> >>
> >> DB
> >
> > Hi DB,
> >
> > Is your form name [area search] or is that the target of the form?
> >
> Hi - my page uses:
>
> <form action="[area search]" method=post>
> ....
>
> thanks for any hints....
>
> DB

It looks like you are missing the form name.

How about:
<form name="myform" action="[area search]" method=post>

and the javascript:
<body onLoad="document.myform.FieldName.focus();">

Dan