jwlarson3rd has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a form written in cgi.pm. I would like when the page loads that the blinking cursor is in the top textbox called required-name. the code is trying to take advantage of onLoad handler it doesn't work.any help would be appreciated John Larson 
print $q->start_html(-title=>'Contact about renting space',
-BGCOLOR=>'#FFFFCC',
-COLOR=>'#003300',
-onLoad=>"window.document.mailform.required-name.focus()");

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Re: javascript perl cgi.pm
by japhy (Canon) on Jan 31, 2004 at 00:40 UTC
    I'd suggest renaming your textbox. The hyphen is confusing JavaScript. It thinks you're subtracting name.focus() from window.document.mailform.required, because the hyphen is treated like a minus.

    Either change the field name, or do: window.document.mailform.elements['required-name'].focus() (untested)

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      thank you that works. John Larson
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