At 4:46 PM -0700 11/13/07, Jon Westcot wrote:
Hi all:
This may or may not be a PHP-related question, but, since I'm
coding with PHP, I thought I'd ask:
When a form loads, such as a login form, I'd like to have the
cursor placed automatically in the Username field. Right now, it
requires me to click it with the mouse or to tab into it. I know
I've seen this type of cursor control accomplished on countless web
pages, but I can't find any hints on how to accomplish this on my
own. Can one of you wonderful code wizards point me in the right
direction?
It's a javascript thing -- check out onFocus:
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_onfocus.asp
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/document/_BODY_onFocus.html
Also, while I'm asking questions, let me ask another one: I've
seen several pages (frequently, pages that come up after a login
page has been filled out) that provide some user mollification (you
know, the typical "Please be patient, don't get your nylons in a
knot, we're typing as fast as we can" message), often with some type
of moving text or graphics (probably an animated GIF) that then goes
away after a certain time and a third page is displayed.
Here's a collection of animated wait gifs:
http://webbytedd.com/bb/wait/
Steal as you need -- I did.
I know that the headers("Location") code can do this, but I was
under the (probably mistaken) impression that this will NOT work if
information has already been displayed on the page. If that's the
case, how are these other pages doing this? Knowing how to move
from page to page this way would really be helpful.
Check out php sessions for passing data between pages.
http://www.php.net/session
http://www.tizag.com/phpT/phpsessions.php
HTH's
tedd
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