[PLUG] Javascript question

[Randall Hansen]

Thus spoke "Matt Alexander" <m at pdxlug.org>
( Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:46:58 -0700 (PDT) ):

> Does anyone know how I would send the focus to a text field based on
> its contents?  For example, I dynamically create an HTML table
> (containing input text fields) from an SQL query and I want to have
> the cursor automatically go to a certain field containing a certain
> string of text. Thanks,

Try this:

http://sonofhans.net/select-form-by-contents.html

I just hacked it up, but it should work in all browsers with decent
DOM support (e.g. all modern ones).  The page is self-documenting. 
Let me know if it's what you want.

r
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