Autofocus on EditorFor

Question

I would like to autofocus on an editorfor in my application, but I can\'t seem to do that. I have successfully used autofocus on a textbox, but I would like to use an editor

Answer 1

This s because you are using EditorFor instead of something specific like TextBoxFor.

@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Name, new { htmlAttributes = new { 
                    @class = "form-control" }, autofocus="autofocus"})

Or you can do that using jQuery:

    @Html.EditorFor(model => model.Description)
    @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Description)
 
$(function() {
    $('.focus :input').focus();
});

Update:
As you know TextBoxFor always creates a textbox with type input, But EditorFor is a little bit smart, it renders markup based on the datatype of the property.