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Making Your Forms Auto-Focus (Ruby on Rails)

Started by Luke · 8 months ago

Introduction
This covers the same material as this entry from Building Browsergames: Making Your Forms Auto-Focus
Why Do We Have To Do Anything Different?
The advice is excellent and it works perfectly, but it has to be tweaked ever so slightly for Rails. Rails actually generates your fo ... Continue reading »

4 comments

jake
10 months ago

in jQuery you can also write it like:
<pre>
$(window).ready(function(){
$("input:nth-child(0)").focus()
})

</pre>

with Prototype you can do:
<pre>

document.observe("window:loaded", function() {
// initially hide all containers for tab content
$('user_login').focus()
});

</pre>

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Marko
9 months ago

People that need also to position the cursor should take a look at http://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL/Method/setS... and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms53640...

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