How to mark (highlight) a text-field onFocus

[Per Magnus L?vold]

Hi!
I'm working on a JSP application, and wish to define a text-field so
that it becomes marked (highligted) when it obtains focus.

I've tried giving the text-field a value when it obtains focus, but
the value is not marked. So if i wish to alter the value, I have to
manually delete the given 'onFocus' value before I set a new value.

<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=test size=30 onFocus=\"this.value='I want this
to be highlighted!'\">

I'm missing something to highlight the text-field text in the code
above.
Hope someone can help me!

Regards,
Per Magnus

 

[Martin Honnen]

Per Magnus L?vold wrote:

I'm working on a JSP application, and wish to define a text-field so
that it becomes marked (highligted) when it obtains focus.

<input type="text"
name="inputName"
value="Kibology"
onfocus="this.select();">

will do, however you might want to implement some logic to call select
only as long as the default value is displayed as it is probably not
helpful to the user that his input is selected.