I'm writing an iPhone web app, and I want to automatically focus a text field when the page is loaded, bringing up the keyboard. The usual Javascript:
input.focus();
doesn't seem to be working. Any ideas?
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Last post from way back machine (as original seems to not work):
I am developing my app in pure XHTML MP / Ecmascript MP / WCSS. So
using native platform browser control api is really not an option for
me. Yes the behaviour u mention is the same as mine. I searched his
topic in the bugzilla at webkit.org and found that this indeed is a
reported bug. focus() to a text box does highlight the element but
does not provide a carat in it for the user to start entering text.
Using a timer as mentioned by [email protected] does not help either.
This behaviour is common across platforms (s60,iphone,android) which
use the webkit engine.
So as of now i dont see a solution to this problem.
Hope this helps
