Form Focus

Lee Underwood Aug 20, 2008

General

This snippet places the cursor in a selected form field upon page load. It uses the ID attribute, making it easy to target any field, regardless of form changes. Easy to add to any form.

Notes

Created by: Lee Underwood
Web Site: http://www.javascriptsource.com/
Posted: August 20, 2008

Source Code

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External file

Paste this code into an external JavaScript file named: formFocus.js

/* This script and many more are available free online at
The JavaScript Source!! http://www.javascriptsource.com
Created by: Lee Underwood | http://www.javascriptsource.com/ */

function getFocus() {
  // place the id below of the field you want to have focus upon page load
  var focusHere = document.getElementById("yourName");
  focusHere = focusHere.focus();
}

// Multiple onload function created by: Simon Willison
// http://simonwillison.net/2004/May/26/addLoadEvent/
function addLoadEvent(func) {
  var oldonload = window.onload;
  if (typeof window.onload != 'function') {
    window.onload = func;
  } else {
    window.onload = function() {
      if (oldonload) {
        oldonload();
      }
      func();
    }
  }
}

addLoadEvent(function() {
  getFocus();
});

Head

Paste this code into the HEAD section of your HTML document.


<script type="text/javascript" src="formFocus.js"></script>

Body

Paste this code into the BODY section of your HTML document


<form id="formTest">
Name: <input type="text" id="yourName"><br>
E-mail: <input type="text" id="yourEmail">
</form>

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(1 comment)

Hi,[br /][br /]I looked at many of these but this was the easiest and cleanest to use. Top hole old bean!

alastair Nov 27, 2008

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