up one level --- 2015-08-07 HTML Form With JavaScript – How to Make the First Text Field Autofocus I’m happy that I was able to make my html form autofocus the first field by default. with JavaScript. In my case, for my mzz-cases-notes.php form, what this meant is three changes: ( Note: my mzz-cases-notes.php form is hosted at https://github.com/mjassen/mzz-cases-notes ) 1. I added this between the head tags, just before the closing head tag: <script type="text/javascript"> function FocusOnInput() { document.getElementById("description").focus(); } </script> 2. I added to the opening body tag, to make this: <body onload="FocusOnInput()"> 3. I added this in the HTML/PHP code for the form’s text field: echo "<input type=’text’ name=’".$result[$i][1]."’ id=’".$result[$i][1]."’ style=’width:250px;’/> "; The Link to the commit with the change: https://github.com/mjassen/mzz-ca...33/mzz-cases-notes.php That’s how I I was able to make my html form autofocus the first field by default. References: I used this stackoverflow example to help me along the way: http://stackoverflow.com/questio...-on-page-load [2019 edit: Moved to: https://i̶n̶v̶e̶s̶t̶o̶r̶w̶o̶r̶k̶e̶r̶.̶c̶o̶m̶/2015/... .html.]