Setting focus AND anchors

[Daniel Kaplan]

Hello All,

I have a Perl script that creates my HTML, which has a form, and then I set
focus to a specific part of the form with:

...my form and input fields here....
</form>
<script language="JavaScript"> document.sendquickmsg.qmsg.focus(); </script>

But just now I added an anchor in the link, so that my browser scrolls right
to the edit field. So my script is called with the achor
(http:.../myscript.pl?id=123#myanchor)

What I have found is that my Javascript set focus call no longer works if I
call the anchor. But still works if I don't.

Does one cancel out the other? Is there a work around?

Thanks ahead,

Daniel

[Daniel Kaplan]

"Daniel Kaplan" <No****@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
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(http:.../myscript.pl?id=123#myanchor)

What I have found is that my Javascript set focus call no longer works if
I call the anchor. But still works if I don't.

Does one cancel out the other? Is there a work around?

In case anyone ever comes across this as well, here is the solution I was
given that seems to work best:

Ported the Javascript code for this over to one of my JS files in a
function.

Called that function with onLoad event for that specific page via the HEAD
section of that page.

And the focus is done withing a setTimeout method (to give the page time to
scroll I guess)
.... setTimeout("document.getElementById('test').focus( );", 100);

Because, as the person who discovered the solution said: "Seems that the
goto anchor happens after the page onload method is called, tedious."

So the bottom line is that I get my scroll (anchor) and setfocus too.