How to set focus to a radio button without <body> (Macromedia Dreamweaver Web Design)

How to set focus to a radio button without <body>
message from WestSide on 21 Jul 2004
Hi, I wanted to find out... does anyone know how to set focus to a radio button when the page loads, besides using the body tag. Currently the body tag in this app has an OnLoad event... is there another way? Ideally something where I could use on all my forms would be cool, but if not, I will take what I can get.. Any thoughts? -WestSide

Gary White replied to WestSide on 20 Jul 2004

In addition to the other replies, you can insert a small script block in the
body of the page as long as it is AFTER the object you're setting focus to.
I'd suggest putting it right before the closing </body> tag.

Gary

Michael Fesser replied to WestSide on 21 Jul 2004

.oO(WestSide)

You can have multiple scripts/calls on the onload-event, separated by
semi-colons:

<body onload="doThis(); doThat(); doNothing(); wasteTime();">

HTH
Micha

Josh Johnson replied to Michael Fesser on 20 Jul 2004

Or to keep it simple, I usually create an initialization function like

<body onload="init();">

and then call all the startup functions in one script in the head like

<script>
function init() {
doThis();
doThat();
doNothing();
wasteTime();
}
</script>

A little bit longer, but I find it easier to read and debug, since it's
easy to comment out one function at a time for testing.

- Josh

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