You are correct. I did not think about it in that way. What I am attempting to do is this. I have an textarea that my user types into. I would like the user to be able to click on a button that would either set the cursor at the end or the beginning of the textarea. I really don't need the keyboard commands to do that do I? Can't I use something like a selstart property or something like that and code the new value of the property. Then I could focus() back to the textarea?

Neil


Neil,
>You don't. JavaScript is supposed to be innocuous and even a bad "hacker" can do alot with the ability to access keyboard input.
>
>AFAIK, the only way would be to access the Windows Scripting Host (if installed) and use the WshShell object. It has a SendKeys method that will send keystrokes to the active window. For obvious reasons, this could be disallowed by the admin types.
>
>Good luck!
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>How do I simulate vfp keyborad commands in JavaScript?
>>ie:
>>keyboard "{HOME}"
>>
>>Neil