position a cursor in a textbox using code in client side

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Claudia Fong - 30 Nov 2007 09:29 GMT

How can I position a cursor in a textbox on page load?
I need this code in client side...

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Claudi

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Kevin Spencer - 30 Nov 2007 11:48 GMT

You can't. There is no interface for moving the cursor in an HTML text box.

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Mark Rae [MVP] - 30 Nov 2007 12:09 GMT

> How can I position a cursor in a textbox on page load?

This is fairly simple:
http://parentnode.org/javascript/working-with-the-cursor-position/

See section 5...

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