John, Thanks for the explanation. It's clarified things for me. I'll be searching CPAN for a solution, as you suggested. Thanks, again Ron
John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/5/06, Ron Smith wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've been looking for this all over, but can't seem to find a link. Is > > there a Perl or PerlScript equivalent to the JavaScript or vbscript > > on-focus function? If there is, could someone please, point me in the > > right direction. > > > > Omega -1911 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you tell us what exactly it is that you are trying to do? > > Ron Smith am Montag, 6. Februar 2006 01.35: > Yes, I'm trying to have the "blinking cursor" start in a specific text > field, on a web page, when the page loads in the browser. Hi Ron There is no such thing as a perl equivalent for the javascript onfocus attribute. Javascript handlers are interpreted by the javascript engine of a browser, based on the definition of this attribute and its associated javascript handler code, both defined in the (x)html code. Perl on the other side is a script language that can be interpreted by the server (via cgi, modperl etc.) to produce html page source code - but can not be given to the browser to be interpreted by it. What you want probably is something that produces the onfocus attribute on the server side, along with producing the html code. There are lots of modules on search.cpan.org that help to produce html source and even javascript code. Check out the CGI module, http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.15/CGI.pm, and search for the word javascript. hth, joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
