# Input Text - Cursor

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-cursor/38793>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 29, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-cursor/38793 "2003-12-29T23:05:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![JuzzMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eada6e/32.png) [@JuzzMan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JuzzMan)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-cursor/38793/1 "2003-12-29T23:05:07Z")

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Hi all!!! Does anyone know how to make the cursor appear automatically in an input text box, so the user does not have to click inside the box every time he/she wants to type.

Merry Christmas!!! :?)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-cursor/38793/2 "2003-12-29T23:20:05Z")

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read help on “selection.setFocus”…