Comments on: Focus first Form field with jQuery

You can also

Robert — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:38:01 +0200

You can also use
$("input:visible:enabled:first").focus();
to bring focus to any (named or unnamed form) input element.

But I wouldn't have known that if it weren't for your comment. ;)

Impressing.

Gerd Riesselmann — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:16:00 +0100

Impressing.

Using some of jquery's

Will Kelly — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:21:54 +0100

Using some of jquery's custom selectors this works a treat. $("#myform :input:visible:enabled:first").focus();

I use something like the

Dan Kubb — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:04:45 +0100

I use something like the following to find the first field in a form:

jQuery.fn.offsetTop = function() { var e = this.get(0); if(!e.offsetParent) return e.offsetTop; return e.offsetTop + $(e.offsetParent).offsetTop(); }; var firstField; jQuery.each([ 'input', 'select', 'textarea' ], function() { var field = $(this + ':visible:enabled:first', form).get(0); if(field) if(!firstField || $(field).offsetTop() < $(firstField).offsetTop()) firstField = field; });
Looks like indenting is off in this post, but you get the idea.