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Bug 27833 - Issue: 99% of the time if you want to use auto focus you want it to be the first visible control of [...]
Summary: Issue: 99% of the time if you want to use auto focus you want it to be the fi...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Needs Impl Interest
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-for...
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Reported: 2015-01-14 22:25 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2016-03-24 17:28 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2015-01-14 22:25:07 UTC 
Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html
Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#the-form-element
Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-form-element
Referrer: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/

Comment:
Issue: 99% of the time if you want to use auto focus you want it to be the
first visible control of a form.  I'd there like to suggest an autofocus
attribute for the form element whose presence causes the first visible control
to have focus on page load.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2015-01-15 20:11:11 UTC 
How would it work? Just keep monitoring the DOM until a form control is added, then focus it? That sounds expensive.

Are any UAs interested in implementing this?
Comment 2 Anne 2016-03-24 17:28:37 UTC 
Closing due to lack of follow up.