02 January 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Set focus on first field with Prototype

If you are using jQuery see this post. To set focus on first text field with Prototype I prefer something like this var firstField = $$(‘input:text:visible’).first(); if (firstField) firstField.focus(); but you can also try with Form.focusFirstElement or Form.findFirstElement

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17 January 2008 ~ 7 Comments

Set focus on first field with jQuery

f you are using Prototype see this post. Setting focus on the first text field with jQuery is as simple as $(“input:text:first”).focus(); $(“input:text:visible:first”).focus(); Find more at http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors Update: If you are on Rails use auto_focusable_forms, dependency free plugin that will focus first input for you.

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