[iStudent 2003]

I am making a page with text box fields, and I would like to have courser jump to the first text box when the page loads. I searched for a javascript, but I didn't find one.

Does anyone know how to do this?

[Chris O'Brien]

Code:
document.getElementById("inputsID").focus()

should do the trick. I'm not sure if it's setFocus() for MSIE...

There's other ways of referencing the element (text box) too, like

Code:
document.getElementsByTagName("input")[0].focus()

so it's up to you...

[redJag]

I hate sites that do that, because I can usually type what I need in the first field before the page even loads completely (even though I'm on a 1.5Mbps connection) and I start typing the next field, the javascript selects the first field, and I lose what I typed! So annoying, don't do it!

[mrchin]

I understood it as the actual mouse cursor jumping to the text field. Physical location of pointer on the display. The other posts seem to describe the selected text field. I do not know how to attempt the cursor itself but just thought I'd mention it.

Otherwise the original question seemed to miscommunicate the actual intent.

[madmacgames]

I have seen a few pages do this without javascript. It is weird, but if there is an input box positioned correctly, alot of browsers seem to automatically select it. I'm not sure exactly what is happening on those pages, but I've come across a few pages in the past that did this, and when I checked source, there was no javascript or anything else I could find that would be making this happen. And almost all browsers I tried it in did it. Weird.

But if you want to do it and make sure it works, use javascript. some people may find it annoying for like a "form" with many inputs, as already mentioned. I think it's best use would be on the search input box on a page, especially if you found people often used the "quick search" box or whatever, if you have one.

[Chris O'Brien]

I originally assumed he meant moving the mouse pointer, but since it can't be done, decided to answer the question as if he wanted to just focus on a text box.

I think you can use 'tabindex' to set which input is highlighted first - not sure though...