How to Set Focus on Input Field using JQuery

Question

Given the following HTML structure:

<div class="wrapper">
    <div class="top">
        <a href="http://example.com" class="link">click here</a>
    </div>
    <div class="middle">
        some text
    </div>
    <div class="bottom">
        <form>
            <input type="text" class="post">
            <input type="submit">
        </form>
    </div>
<div>

which will be repeated several times on the page, how do I set the focus on the input field in the .bottom div when a user clicks on the link in the .top div?

I am currently making the .bottom div appear successfully on click using the JQuery code below, but can't seem to figure out how to set focus on the input field at the same time.

$('.link').click(function() {
    $(this).parent().siblings('div.bottom').show();
});

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try this, to set the focus to the first input field:

$(this).parent().siblings('div.bottom').find("input.post").focus();

Answer 2

Justin's answer did not work for me (Chromium 18, Firefox 43.0.1). jQuery's .focus() creates visual highlight, but text cursor does not appear in the field (jquery 3.1.0).

Inspired by https://www.sitepoint.com/jqueryhtml5-input-focus-cursor-positions/ , I added autofocus attribute to the input field and voila!

function addfield() {
    n=$('table tr').length;
    $('table').append('<tr><td><input name=field'+n+' autofocus></td><td><input name=value'+n+'></td></tr>');
    $('input[name="aa"'+n+']').focus();
}

Answer 3

If the input happens to be in a bootstrap modal dialog, the answer is different. Copying from How to Set focus to first text input in a bootstrap modal after shown this is what is required:

$('#myModal').on('shown.bs.modal', function () {
  $('#textareaID').focus();
})