HTML DOM Element focus()

Give focus to an element:

document.getElementById("myAnchor").focus();

Give focus to a text field:

document.getElementById("myText").focus();

Give focus to a text field when the document has been loaded:

window.onload = function() {
document.getElementById("myText").focus();
}

Description

The focus() method gives focus to an element (if it can be focused).

element.focus()

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element.focus() is a DOM Level 2 (2001) feature.

It is fully supported in all browsers:


Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Safari	Opera	IE
Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9-11