How do I have the cursor focus to a text field on page load?

Biju Subhash   January 29   Javascript, Tutorial   Read 9093 times   16 comments

Here I’m explaining how to focus cursor to a text field on page load. You can do this with several methods with a simple javascript code. For this, you have to put a name for your form and your text filed. See the sample form below.

<form name="myForm" method="post" action="">
  <label>
      <input type="text" name="username" />
  </label>
  <label>
      <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
  </label>
</form>

Now just look on the code. You can do this with a single line code within body onLoad.
<body onLoad="document.myForm.username.focus();">
You can call this code with a function like this:
<script>
  function curFocus(){
     document.myForm.username.focus();
  }
</script>
<body onLoad="curFocus();">

Another method is put the code inside the page after the form. See how is it.
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
  var focusCtrl = document.forms["myForm"].elements["username"];
       if(focusCtrl) {
           focusCtrl.focus();
   }
</script>

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  5. 1. Assigning to document.unload is poor citizenship. If anything else on your page requires similar handling, you will have to have your onload method do more than set the focus, and a lazy programmer might not even change its name from ‘curFocus’. Instead, use addEvent (IE) or addEventListener (Firefox, etc.)

    1.1. Instead of using conditional code to choose between addEvent and addEventListener, after you’ve learned to do that, consider using a JavaScript library such as Prototype or jQuery.

    2. Adding raw Javascript to your page is messy. Place it in a separate file, and invoke it with a script src=”…” element.

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