Changing the inital selected field on a NetWebForm

[Rob Kolanko]

When a WebNetForm page is first displayed, the first field on the form is selected, which in my case is a java script button.  Thus the button is displayed in a highlight mode like the cursor is over the button. Is it possible to prevent selecting the first field when generating this form?
Thanks
Rob Kolanko

[Rob Kolanko]

Bump this message.
I suspect there is a session variable that can be changed to prevent the first field of the page from being "selected" after the page is first generated. Hopefully someone will know it.
Thanks,
Rob Kolanko

[Bruce]

Hi Rob,

as it happens, there's no easy way to set the "first field" at the moment. The "first field" is given the focus by some JavaScript which works reasonably hard to figure out which field is first. (For example, it skips over read-only, or hidden fields etc. also fields in html do not necessarily declare the fields in vertical order, so the first field "on the page" is not necessarily the first field "in the html".)

what you want is one of two things, although I suspect ultimately we want both to be in play;

a) a SKIP attribute, similar to the windows Skip attribute - although unlike the windows one this would really only be "skip on open", not "skip on tab".

b) the ability to set a field explicitly as the "first field".

cheers
Bruce

[Jeffrey Kuijt]

Hi Bruce,

Those options would be very nice!
Please, please...

Best regards
Jeffrey

[Rob Kolanko]

Bruce,
Thanks for the update. At least I know that there is no easy solution, then I will adjust the layout of some pages keeping in mind that the first field will be highlighted.
Rob Kolanko