[SOLVED] Cursor started in Text box on load

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I know this is probably a stupidly simple question, so I'm sorry in advance. I've tried looking around here and google to find a solution but came up empty handed. May my google-foo is not what it used to be.

 

Basically I have a form, made in html, with PHP processing it. I would like the first text box on the page, to be selected on page load, so that I start typing right away, with out having to use my mouse to click on the text box to place the cursor inside it.

Suggestions?

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I continued looking and found something a bit helpful:  http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/javascript/article.php/3471131#code for those that are interested.

But this requires me to include the name of that object, in this case a text box, in the body. Is there another way to handle this? I ask because all of my pages call a php function to get the body and the name of that text box has the need to be different on various pages.

 

maybe a this.focus() in the <input> tag?

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Ha! Thanks everyone 

 

I kept looking and figured it out.

For anyone that needs to know this, another option to onload is the following

<script type="text/javascript">
document.form.item.focus();
</script>

 

Where form is the name of your form, and item is the name of the object you would like highlighted first.