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Bug 24124 - extend autofocus support to all focusable elements
Summary: extend autofocus support to all focusable elements
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 13942
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
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Reported: 2013-12-17 10:50 UTC by Giorgio
Modified: 2013-12-17 11:21 UTC (History)
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Description Giorgio 2013-12-17 10:50:29 UTC 
use cases are plenty, for example

give focus automatically to an element for keyboard scrolling navigation

<div tabindex="0" autofocus style="overflow:auto;">

or give auto focus to an <a> element

or to a <div> with contentEditable mode enabled
Comment 1 Leif Halvard Silli 2013-12-17 11:21:20 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13942 ***