I have taken over a project that was coded in Perl. I am learning to love this language but have encountered a problem that has taken me 4 days to work -out, or not work - out . Here is my situation. I have a asp page that searches for "positions available" and it returns a certain number of "positions" in a ScrollingList. I need to highlight (focus) the first selection (option) in the scrollinglist. Can anyone help me, I appreciate any idea's. Thank you!

You can't do it in perl but you can with javascript after generating the list.

document.form_name.select_element.elements[0].selected = true;

Thanks for answering so quickly

Question: 1)So I can I have this when the page is loaded?

2) and the select_element is what? I am not familiar with Javascript at all!

3) Do I then also have to set the form_name?

Actually, hold on a sec, the first option is always selected anyway isn't it?

If you want to actually highlight the element aside from just selecting it then see attached.