Set focus to a label field

Hi,
I want to set focus to a label field in HTML using javascript.

On buttonclick I am setting the focus to the label:

However, the focus is not set to the 'label'. Instead it remains on the button.
Please help.

"swap aj", have you red the private message which was sent to you by Bear yesterday?

Labels should be linked to a form element and when they are normally focused, they focus the element they are linked too. Don't you have a for="blahId" on it?

Eric

Not clear with the last part i.e "for="blahId""?

Swapna Agde wrote:Not clear with the last part i.e "for="blahId""?

The spec document: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.9.1

I wonder if onfocus does not fire when JavaScript sets it.

Eric