Forcing Tab Key

[clyde]

Is there a way to force the tab key on any <Input> field in the form without manually tabbing to that field.

My reason is that when the form loads the <input> field I chooses will already have a value in it and as soon as I start keying in the new value I want the old value cleared as would happen if you manually tabbed to the <input> field.

Any help appreceiated,

Clyde

[konithomimo]

I read the original post wrong. Just use select():

document.getElementById('text1').select();

where text1 is the ID of the input that you want to focus on and highlight.