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    copied!<p>I'm trying to set the default focus on an input box when the page loads (example: google). My page is very simple, yet I can't figure out how to do this.</p> <p>This is what I've got so far:</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;Password Protected Page&lt;/title&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; function FocusOnInput() { document.getElementById("PasswordInput").focus(); } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;style type="text/css" media="screen"&gt; body, html {height: 100%; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;} #outer {width: 100%; height: 100%; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;} #middle {vertical-align: middle} #centered {width: 280px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align:center;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body onload="FocusOnInput()"&gt; &lt;table id="outer" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td id="middle"&gt; &lt;div id="centered"&gt; &lt;form action="verify.php" method="post"&gt; &lt;input type="password" name="PasswordInput"/&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>How come that doesn't work while this works fine?</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; function FocusOnInput() { document.getElementById("InputID").focus(); } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body onload="FocusOnInput()"&gt; &lt;form&gt; &lt;input type="text" id="InputID"&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>Help is much appreciated :-)</p>
 

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