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How would you set the focus to a textarea in a form when the page loads (ie: google.com)?

Jun 12th, 2000 12:25
Brian Williams,

I got to looking agian and figured this one out.
<head>
<script language="Javascript">
function begin()
  {
  document.form_name.field.focus();
  }
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="begin()">