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How to focus on an input field when the page is loaded

 

comments3 comments. Current rating: 5 stars (2 votes). Leave comments and/ or rate it.

The object model provides a .focus() method.
Simply reference the field and call its focus method in the onload event as shown below: 

<body onload="document.getElementById('searchterm').focus();">

// .. here's the FORM. Make sure to define the ID tag,
// not just the name tag.
<textarea id="searchterm">

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2006-09-18, 21:38:17
anonymous from United States  
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2006-09-25, 04:35:03
anonymous from United Kingdom  
IS there a way to do this without Javascript? IE will not allow this in an HTML page run from hard disk...
2007-02-17, 19:52:32
anonymous from  
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