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Steve
Steve

Reputation: 4908

How to focus on a textarea

After my user enters text into a form field I want to force the cursor to jump to the next field, by doing something like 

$('#senderName').focus();

This works as long as the next field is an input element. It doesn't work when the next input is a textarea. Is there any way to force the cursor to jump to a textarea?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 380

Answers (2)

mrserge
mrserge

Reputation: 199

Add tabindex=1 to textarea.

<textarea id="senderName" tabindex="1"></textarea>

Upvotes: 0

Izaaz Yunus
Izaaz Yunus

Reputation: 2828

Works for me!

Fiddle here

<textarea id="myid"></textarea>

$("#myid").focus()

Upvotes: 1

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