Move focus to a particular field

Question

I have a button that will add show a form on the page. how can I move the focus to the first field of the form when that button is clicked?

simple example:

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Answer 1

A quicker lookup would simply be.

$('#firstField').focus()

However if you removed the ID from your element then this would be better but slightly slower.

$('#newForm input:first').focus();