not getting focus in textarea.

[dinesh1985singh]

I want to place a cursor by default in a textarea.The editor is in a hidden div, and when a button is clicked, the div displays. Instead of making the user click in the editor to begin typing, I want the editor focused so they can start adding content immediately.

[Dormilich]

I’d guess you should apply .focus() to the editor’s <textarea>

[dinesh1985singh]

@Dormilich
Thank you Dormilich ,but it didn't work.I tried it.


I you would have any other alternetive then please let me know..
thank you

[phvfl]

@dinesh1985singh
Should be working for you. Given html of

<div id="editorDiv" style="display:none;">
<textarea id="myEditor" name="myEditor" cols="30" rows="6"></textarea></div>
 

The following javascript should do what you want:

  var container = document.getElementById("editorDiv"), editor = document.getElementById("myEditor");
  container.style.display="block";
  editor.focus();