Re: [Sdruby] set initial focus

[Chris Abad]

set the input item class to "initialfocus" or something like that. put a function into your application.js which loops through form elements and sets the focus on the first (or last, or whatever) one it comes across w/ a class of "initialfocus". Attach this function to the window's load event.

On Apr 30, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Glenn Little wrote:

I'm trying to set the initial focus to some specific form
field on a page.

I can use a prototype call to do something like:

<% form_tag .... %>
 <%= text_field_tag ... %>
 <script>$('text_field_id').focus();</script>
  <%= some_other_field_tag... %>

and it works, but I'm just wondering if there was a cleaner
way that I'm missing.  Ideally, I'd like not to have to
explicitly state the id of the input element.  Have I missed out
on an :initialfocus => true option to the form field helpers
or anything like that?

Thanks...

                -glenn
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No "initialfocus" option in the rails helpers... but you could add one easy enough that did the above. Probably wouldn't be necessary though. It's simple enough as is.

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