curser moving automatically between fields on a form

[laria]

I am creating a form and would like the cursor to automatically jump to the next field - especially when entering a phone number that I've set up as a 3+3+4 type of thing. How would I accomplish this?

Thanks in advance!

[Stefan]

You could use the maxlength attribute on <input> from where your JavaScript could get the size.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/...adef-maxlength

eg
<input size="3" maxlength="3">
<input size="3" maxlength="3">
<input size="4" maxlength="4">

It also prevents people from entering too many numbers in 1 field even if JS is not available (but they have to press tab manually to jump to the next input box of cource =)

[Stefan]

Originally posted by Dave Clark
Note to laria: If you care about those who use NS4, you will have to do as I suggested above. In other words, the maxlength attribute, mentioned, does not work in that browser/version (maybe others, too).

Dave

Just out of interest, wouldn't a javascript be able to get the value of maxlenght even if the browser doesn't implement the correct behaviour in the HTML?

[Stefan]

Originally posted by Dave Clark
NS4 will only allow new properties that are created from within JavaScript itself.

It's stuff like that makes you glad NS 4 is on the way to die out

[laria]

well yeah.. I wasn't thinking that I had to worry about dated versions of browsers. I thought about it afterwards too and most people are used to tabbing between fields and to throw something different at the general population is usually devastating to them anyway People like 'same ole same ole'.
Thank you all for taking the time to respond. I appreciate it