# Problems w/ Selection.setFocus in Web Page **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [March 29, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-w-selection-setfocus-in-web-page/183770 "2006-03-29T22:33:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![clem\_c\_rock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@clem\_c\_rock](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/clem_c_rock)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-w-selection-setfocus-in-web-page/183770/1 "2006-03-29T22:33:59Z")

Hello, It’s me again. I’m trying to set the curser focus in a text field when a movie clip loads in a webpage. The following code works great in the authoring environment but, when you view it in a webpage, it does not show the cursor in the text field. Current Code I’m using: Code: \_root.focusEnabled = true; Selection.setFocus(“username\_txt”); Also, I’ve also had some success only in Windows IE by using the above code in conjunction w/ the following javascript in the webpage: \ \