How can the cursor be focus on a specific input box on page load?
Is it posible to retain initial text value as well and place cursor at end of input?
If you can't add to the BODY tag for some reason, you can add this AFTER the Form:
<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
document.yourFormName.yourFieldName.focus();
</SCRIPT>
A portable way of doing this is using a custom function (to handle browser differences) like this one.
Then setup a handler for the onload
at the end of your <body>
tag, as jessegavin wrote:
window.onload = function() {
document.getElementById("myinputbox").focus();
}
function focusOnMyInputBox(){
document.getElementById("myinputbox").focus();
}
<body onLoad="focusOnMyInputBox();">
<input type="text" size="25" id="myinputbox" class="input-text" name="input2" onfocus="this.value = this.value;" value = "initial text">
Working fine...
window.onload = function() {
var input = document.getElementById("myinputbox").focus();
}
This is what works fine for me:
<form name="f" action="/search">
<input name="q" onfocus="fff=1" />
</form>
fff will be a global variable which name is absolutely irrelevant and which aim will be to stop the generic onload event to force focus in that input.
<body onload="if(!this.fff)document.f.q.focus();">
<!-- ... the rest of the page ... -->
</body>
From: http://webreflection.blogspot.com.br/2009/06/inputfocus-something-really-annoying.html
There are two parts to your question.
1) How to focus an input on page load?
You can just add the autofocus
attribute to the input.
<input id="myinputbox" type="text" autofocus>
However, this might not be supported in all browsers, so we can use javascript.
window.onload = function() {
var input = document.getElementById("myinputbox").focus();
}
2) How to place cursor at the end of the input text?
Here's a non-jQuery solution with some borrowed code from another SO answer.
function placeCursorAtEnd() {
if (this.setSelectionRange) {
// Double the length because Opera is inconsistent about
// whether a carriage return is one character or two.
var len = this.value.length * 2;
this.setSelectionRange(len, len);
} else {
// This might work for browsers without setSelectionRange support.
this.value = this.value;
}
if (this.nodeName === "TEXTAREA") {
// This will scroll a textarea to the bottom if needed
this.scrollTop = 999999;
}
};
window.onload = function() {
var input = document.getElementById("myinputbox");
if (obj.addEventListener) {
obj.addEventListener("focus", placeCursorAtEnd, false);
} else if (obj.attachEvent) {
obj.attachEvent('onfocus', placeCursorAtEnd);
}
input.focus();
}
Here's an example of how I would accomplish this with jQuery.
<input type="text" autofocus>
<script>
$(function() {
$("[autofocus]").on("focus", function() {
if (this.setSelectionRange) {
var len = this.value.length * 2;
this.setSelectionRange(len, len);
} else {
this.value = this.value;
}
this.scrollTop = 999999;
}).focus();
});
</script>