Question

Upon page load I want to move the cursor to a particular field. No problem. But I also need to select and highlight the default value that is placed in that text field.

Answer 1

From http://www.codeave.com/javascript/code.asp?u_log=7004:

var input = document.getElementById('myTextInput'); input.focus(); input.select();

<input id='myTextInput' value='Hello world!' />