Re: [SLUG] Linux Book keeping (accounting software) - URL's please

[Jim Clark <clarkj@nospam.auss.sop.dec.com>]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:04:09PM +1100, Anthony Rumble wrote:
> > But web interfaces are horrible for data entry..
> 
> Oh, it's not that bad.  About the worst part is having to click
> in the first (date) field.  Tabs get you through all of the
> others, up to the submit button.
> 
> I suspect that javascript might be able to help me with the
> first field focus thing,

yes, you are right.
something like:

<FORM NAME="MyForm" ACTION="My_DataEntry.CFM" METHOD=POST onSubmit="return _CF_checkCreateForm(this)" METHOD="POST">
<pre>
<font face="courier">
First Field
<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="FirstField" VALUE="Jim Clark" SIZE=25 MAXLENGTH=20><BR>
<SCRIPT>
    document.MyForm.FirstField.focus();
</SCRIPT>

[snip snip]


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Cheers,
Jim.
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