Auto-select form box

[Peter Ivanick]

Hi John -

> Is there a method to have the cursor automatically appear in a form box when a page is loaded?
> I would like to modify the search pages on our catalog (DRA Web) to minimize user 'mousing'.

With Javascript, yes. Here's the relevant portion from our Sirsi system:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
    document.searchform.searchdata1.focus();
    document.searchform.searchdata1.select();
</SCRIPT>

where searchdata1 is the entry box we wish the cursor to appear in.

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Peter Ivanick     Sr. Systems Specialist
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