Setting focus to SELECT

[Meltdown]

Hi all, how do you set focus to a SELECT box

I have..

document.dForm.Day_of_Birth2.options[2].selected = true;
document.dForm.Date_Of_Birth.focus();

...my first line sets the SELECT to the correct option, but my second line doesn't seem to work. This a a fairly long form so I really need to 'jump' to the SELECT to show the user which SELECT is incorrect.

Thanks

[chris_fuel]

Hi,

Your second line's select variable name looks nothing like the first. I'm somewhat confused.

[dreamscape]

document.dForm.Day_of_Birth2.focus();

[Meltdown]

Sorry guys, that was just a typo..

it should have been

document.dForm.Day_of_Birth2.options[2].selected = true;
document.dForm.Date_Of_Birth2.focus();

Why doesn't it jump to SELECT box, like it would with an INPUT.

Regards
Melt

[dreamscape]

you still have it typed wrong. If you type if correctly, it works just fine for me.

*edit add*
Though you may want to note that you can't focus on a select object in some browsers (Safari 2 will not for example); but it does work in Firefox that I know of.

When you say "jump" to the select, do you mean you want the page to scroll to it? That's not what focus() does. If you want to scroll to the element, you'll have to get its position (there are several javascript "getPosition" functions floating around the net), and scroll the page to it.