Hi Dan,
A small note to setting input.focus(): if you do that in Firefox in
the onload, it only works if you make use of a timeout...:
function setcursor()
{
document.getElementById('input').focus();
}
setTimeout('setcursor()',200);
Cheers,
Ruben
On Feb 7, 6:01 pm, Dan <chy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you both so much for responding.
> I tried searchControl.input.focus() and it worked perfectly.
> So awesome.
> Thanks again for helping a newb.
>
> On Feb 7, 3:23 am, Jeremy Geerdes <jrgeer...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > To visionjinx's response, I would add that, if you're using the standard
> > SearchControl, you can call searchControl.input.focus() to put the cursor
> > in the search box.
>
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> > On Feb 7, 2010, at 2:08 AM, Vision Jinx wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
>
> > > Just give the input box focus
>
> > > eg.
>
> > > for this form
>
> > > <form name="myform">
> > > <input type="text" name="q" />
> > > </form>
>
> > > you can use something like
>
> > > window.onload=function(){
> > > document.myform.q.focus();
> > > };
>
> > > Cheers!
> > > Vision Jinx
>
> > > On Feb 7, 12:33 am, Dan <chy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Does anyone know how to make the cursor automatically appear in the
> > >> search box on page load? (like the google.com site)
> > >> This would save the step of clicking on the search box.
> > >> Thanks.
>
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