Kolodvor » selectors http://www.kolodvor.net ruby, rails, javascript, jquery, ... Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:24:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Set focus on first field with Prototype http://www.kolodvor.net/2010/01/02/set-focus-on-first-field-with-prototype/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=set-focus-on-first-field-with-prototype http://www.kolodvor.net/2010/01/02/set-focus-on-first-field-with-prototype/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:32:02 +0000 vlado http://kolodvor.net/?p=91 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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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 you can use auto_focusable_forms, dependency free plugin that will focus first input for you.

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