>Paul,
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>The problem here is that many mobile devices don't support Javascript so the code is ignored. I haven't seen a solution that will allow the selection of a control on devices that don't support Javascript.
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Ah. Somehow I was completely oblivious to the fact that this was on a mobile device (you'd think the page name "MobileWebForm1" would have clued me in <g>). Yeah, I can't think of a way to set focus w/o some sort of client-side scripting.