'RE: [japple-dev] Form Focus'

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List:       japple-dev
Subject:    RE: [japple-dev] Form Focus
From:       "Lonon, Jonathan B" <Jonathan.B.Lonon () bankofamerica ! com>
Date:       2003-02-04 19:23:16
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Thanks!  That worked.

Jonathan.

-----Original Message-----
From: mdeneen@japple.org [mailto:mdeneen@japple.org]
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 2:17 PM
To: 'japple-dev@japple.org'
Subject: Re: [japple-dev] Form Focus

You have to use javascript.

What is the name attribute of your form?

I usually do 
document.forms['yourformname']['dc.somedataContext.tablecolumnName'].focus()
;

The old-style access method is kindof broken, because it implies that one 
can not have a "." in their name attribute.

-M

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Lonon, Jonathan B wrote:

> If I do this for my first form field on a form:
> 
> <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="dc.somedataContext.tablecolumnName">
> 
> This won't work in the BODY tag:
> 
> <BODY onload="document.formName.formFieldName.focus()">
> 
> I tried wrapping the formFieldName portion in double-quotes but it still
> doesn't work.  Any alternative ideas to get my first form field to have
the
> initial focus?
> 
> Jonathan.
> 
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