Question

Is there a way by which we can set the focus to a particular textbox in CakePHP. Something like the textbox we have on the home page of google.We load the page and start typing.Is it possible to achieve the same in Cake.

does cake support javascript’s onload function.I only need it for my view and dont want to include an external file for this.I have a user defined function that works fine but the onload doesn’t work.

Answer 1

Just use javascript between your head tags as follows

<script type="text/javascript">
    window.onload=function(){
        document.getElementsByName('txt1')[0].focus(); // txt1 is the name of textbox
    } ​ 
</script>

Update: If you want to use it only for a particular page then you can keep it in that view and in that case you can simply paste it right after the HTML code as follows

<script type="text/javascript">
        document.getElementsByName('txt1')[0].focus(); // txt1 is the name of textbox
</script>