I've seen where login pages (and other form-based pages) place the cursor in
the first field of a form after the page loads.
I'm familiar with the tabIndex, but that only works once you hit the tab
key.
What function automatically places the cursor in any give form field??
Posted by Mark Parnell on January 11, 2005, 2:11 pm
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> I've seen where login pages (and other form-based pages) place the cursor in
> the first field of a form after the page loads.
So have I. It's really annoying. Take the following example:
I'm on dialup, so your page takes a while to load. As soon as the form
fields are visible, I start filling them out. The page finishes loading
just as I'm about to type my password.
a) A normal page - I will type my password in the password field, hit
enter and get logged in.
b) A page that does what you are asking - my password goes into the
login field. This means that not only do I have to take it out of that
field and type it again into the password field, but anyone looking over
my shoulder now knows my password. This is a *bad* thing.
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Posted by News Me on January 11, 2005, 12:45 am
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Mark Parnell wrote:
> So have I. It's really annoying. Take the following example:
>
> I'm on dialup, so your page takes a while to load. As soon as the form
> fields are visible, I start filling them out. The page finishes loading
> just as I'm about to type my password.
>
> a) A normal page - I will type my password in the password field, hit
> enter and get logged in.
>
> b) A page that does what you are asking - my password goes into the
> login field. This means that not only do I have to take it out of that
> field and type it again into the password field, but anyone looking over
> my shoulder now knows my password. This is a *bad* thing.
>
I feel your pain. I've even gone so far as to hit the "Enter" key
without checking the form. I usually feel compelled to immediately
change my password after this happens.
NM
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Posted by ScooterMX on January 11, 2005, 7:08 pm
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> Mark Parnell wrote:
> > So have I. It's really annoying. Take the following example:
> >
> > I'm on dialup, so your page takes a while to load. As soon as the form
> > fields are visible, I start filling them out. The page finishes loading
> > just as I'm about to type my password.
> >
> > a) A normal page - I will type my password in the password field, hit
> > enter and get logged in.
> >
> > b) A page that does what you are asking - my password goes into the
> > login field. This means that not only do I have to take it out of that
> > field and type it again into the password field, but anyone looking over
> > my shoulder now knows my password. This is a *bad* thing.
> >
>
> I feel your pain. I've even gone so far as to hit the "Enter" key
> without checking the form. I usually feel compelled to immediately
> change my password after this happens.
>
> NM
>
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great suggestions.
There is only one form field on this page, and it's a password field. The
entire page is 4k, something even a 300 baud modem can pull up quickly.
My goal was to place the cursor IN that password field, so that people that
like to just type their password then hit enter, can.
So the question still remains: How do I place that cursor in the password
field when the page loads?
Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on January 11, 2005, 10:07 pm
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> There is only one form field on this page, and it's a password field.
> The entire page is 4k, something even a 300 baud modem can pull up
> quickly.
Initial focusing may still cause different problems.
> So the question still remains: How do I place that cursor in the
> password field when the page loads?
Well, you don't do it in HTML anyway, so the question is off-topic.
You could do it JavaScript, with the usual caveats.
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