Calling $().focus on a textarea in Firefox doesn't work as expected

Question

I\'ve reproduced the problem here: http://jsfiddle.net/Rc52x/5/

If you click on Click here! while using Chrome, the textarea gains focus and you can sta

Answer 1

You need to prevent the default action of the link: http://jsfiddle.net/JAAulde/Rc52x/7/

Firefox is following it causing the textarea to lose focus after gaining.

Answer 2

This works:

$(document).ready(function () {
    $("a#focus").click(function(e) {
        $("#Body").focus();
        return false;
    });
});

return false prevents from navigating to "#..."