How to set focus on a jsf component of portlet based web page ?

Question

Hi,
I have a jsf based portlet in a Websphere Portal environment. I have seen the javascript code document.getElementId(form.component).focus for the attribute onLoad in body tag of a page
But in a portlet page, the body tag is somewhere in the Head page of the portal.
How do I achieve this in another way? Is there that accesskey attribute for a component help me to set the focus on itself? HOw do I do that? Any help is appreciated
Thanks

Answer 1

Don't put it in the body. Put it below in the code, right before the closing body tag.
Example<f:verbatim>
    <script>
        setFocus('</f:verbatim><h:outputText value="#{myBean.elementIdToFocus}" /><f:verbatim>'); // load on every view
        function setFocus(elementId) {
            var element = document.getElementById(elementId);
            if (element && element.focus) {
                element.focus();
    </script>
</f:verbatim>Where MyBean.getElementIdToFocus() returns the UIComponent.getId().