Focus on textarea

Question

How would I do the following in javascript:

<textarea onload="focus">Here is some text</textarea>

Basically, I want the textarea field to be focused on, and I want to do it within the html tag.

Answer 1

Try out the autofocus attribute:

 <textarea autofocus>
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</textarea> 

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Answer 2

You would need to provide some way to select your textarea, like an ID: <textarea id="my-textarea"></textarea> .

Then you can use the DOM API: document.getElementById('my-textarea').focus() .

Or use jQuery: $('#my-textarea').focus() .