- From: <fcltps@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 96 16:40:17 +0500
- To: www-html@w3.org
> Of course; tabbing from field to field only makes sense once the input > focus is set. Later versions of Netscape do, I believe, pre-set the focus > to the first writable field. I would suggest that if you need the focus to > start somewhere else then your form isn't laid out in the best manner; > while it would clearly be "nice" to be able to have the cursor appear > anywhere, and similarly for Lynx's anchor cursor to start at an arbitrary > link, it is almost always unnecessary, and IMHO would generally only serve > to confuse the average user. > Unfortunately, I have no control on the placement of input fields. The application, WebPortal, is a 3270 data stream to HTML translator. I did use javascript, as you suggested, and it works - only problem is that I only know of two browsers that support this feature - o well. terry sullivan
Received on Thursday, 20 June 1996 16:48:23 UTC