Jim,

>1) Position the cursor at a specific field (for entry) on a web page?

In addition to the other suggestions, you can specify the first entry field to be positioned when the page loads by attaching script to the "onload" event. This example is for a page with a form "Lookup" with an input field called "inputval":

< html >
< head >whatever...< /head >
< script language="JavaScript" >
function window.onload()
{ document.forms("Lookup").elements("inputval").focus() }
< /script >
< body >etc...

You can attach code to various events related to controls, although that may not work correctly with all browsers. This allows you, for example, to use the "onblur" event to fire script when the user navigates off of a field, although that might not be what you want if they click somewhere else on the page. But anyway, you can play with this.

Here is a slight variation of Trey's page, which starts in the first input field (entername), tabs to the third field (enterphone) because of tabindex=2, then fires an onblur event when tabbing from enterphone, which sends it back to the first field. Not very useful, but demonstrates the techniques. :-)

Note the onload event code in the body tag in this example. Also note alternate ways of referring to the same element, which may not always work in every browser:

< html >
< body onload='document.forms(0).elements("entername").focus()' >
< form >
Name: < input type="textbox" name="entername"  tabindex=1 >
Address: < input type="textbox" name="enteraddr" tabindex=3 >
Phone: < input type="textbox" 
name="enterphone" tabindex=2 onblur='entername.focus()' >
< /form >
< /body >
< /html >