Highlighting one field with focus on another

[Stuart Wexler]

Hi,

I was wondering if there is any way with onload that I can highlight (blue
color) the select box field while simultaneously placing the mouse cursor or
focus on a text box immediately below it? Thanks in advance.

-Stu

[Michael Winter]

On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 23:01:40 -0500, Stuart Wexler <St*******@comcast.net>
wrote:

I was wondering if there is any way with onload that I can highlight
(blue color) the select box field while simultaneously placing the
mouse cursor or focus on a text box immediately below it? Thanks in
advance.

I think the problem you'll have here is that the highlight will be removed
when the control loses focus. I think Opera keeps it, but the highlight
colour changes from blue to grey. I fairly sure that IE removes the
highlight completely until focus is returned to the control. I haven't
used Mozilla and Netscape enough to remember their behaviour.

Mike

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>I was wondering if there is any way with onload that I can highlight (blue

color) the select box field while simultaneously placing the mouse cursor or
focus on a text box immediately below it? Thanks in advance.

While possible, you will need to add more functionality to remove
the highlight from the first option if a person selects another option.
This is just a simple example to do what you asked for.

<.script type="text/javascript">
function initHighlight( objForm) {
objForm.elements[ "exaSelect"].options[ 0].style.color="white";
objForm.elements[ "exaSelect"].options[
0].style.backgroundColor="highlight";
objForm.elements[ "exaInput"].focus();
}
<./script>

<.body onload="initHighlight( document.forms[ 'frmExample']);">

<.form name="frmExample" onsubmit="return false;">
<.select name="exaSelect">
<.option value="1">1
<.option value="2">2
<.option value="3">3
<./select>
<.input type="text" name="exaInput" value="This is a test">
<./form>

Peace, Vm
Yaz

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