getting the cursor to appear by default

I have a form that asks for a user name, password and has a submit button. When the form appears, I would like the user name field to be already "selected" so that the user can just type in their user name without having to click on the field first.
Any suggestions?

Create a javascript function called loadPage().
Call document.formname.fieldname.focus() in this function.
Call loadPage() in the onLoad() function of the body tag.
Hope that helps

Is it possible to do this without javascript?

to my knowledge, you are going to need to use js
I know with html you can set tab order, but not focus
<input type="text" onload="self.focus()">
Eric
[ April 16, 2003: Message edited by: Eric Pascarello ]

The form input type text has an attribute tabindex, but that only works in the latest browsers.