Re: Quick questions -- how do I place the cursor (i.e., set focus) to a field on page load?

At 6:52 PM -0700 11/13/07, Jon Westcot wrote:

Here's a collection of animated wait gifs:

http://webbytedd.com/bb/wait/ Steal as you need -- I did.

    Thanks.  I'll check that out.  I'm still wondering, though, how the

redirection works if it is supposed to occur only before any text appears in the <BODY>.

Don't confuse yourself -- it's simpler than your trying to make it. You show the wait gif in the preceding (or current) page and it's not a redirect. It's simply: 1) The user enters a bunch of data and hits submit; 2) The form then sends that data to the server; 3) The form sticks around showing you a wait gif until the server responds with a new page. 4) You don't need a wait gif for the new page. OR I use javascript to pre-process the data and do basically the same thing. Here's a *required* entry form using javascript. http://webbytedd.com/c/form-submit/ If the calculations in the background are significant with respect to time, then I would throw up a wait gif instead of an alert. However, I seldom write anything that takes that much time -- so it's usually a moot point. Here's another example: http://webbytedd.com/c/form-calc/ I haven't seen too many forms that get more complex than that and the computations there are instant -- so what's the point of a wait gif in form processing? Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com