autofocus="autofocus"

eftalboza · Post by **eftalboza** » Tue Nov 16, 2021 3:16 pm

Hello

To be much more efficient, it would be great if the search field (which I enabled already to be always shown) could have the HTML5 attribut

When opening a new page, one could immediately start typing and it will be in the search field without the need to click there. Especially when looking up many records via a barcode reader as we use it, it would be very helpful not to need to click into the search field before each new reading.

Is there any file where I can add this code so that all search fields on my pages always have this attribut?

darkdragon · Post by **darkdragon** » Wed Nov 17, 2021 2:49 am

Hi there,

just add

// Autofocus in SearchBox
$('#psearch').focus();

in Client Scripts -> Global -> Pages with header/footer -> Startup Script

eftalboza · Post by **eftalboza** » Wed Nov 17, 2021 2:24 pm

What should we do to focus the first field on the add page.?

thank you for your help

darkdragon · Post by **darkdragon** » Thu Nov 18, 2021 5:41 am

there are multiple solutions (just google for them), but you have to adapt to the one that suits you best.

vanilla JS:

document.forms[0].elements[0].focus();

but this will focus on hidden or read-only fields.

better try sometthing with jQuery:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('form:first *:input[type!=hidden]:first').focus();
});

darkdragon · Post by **darkdragon** » Thu Nov 18, 2021 5:42 am

forgot to tell you that if you use placeholder, then it will not show on the first field if you focus by default on it