Topic: Automatic Input Focus

[FourStellar]

Hello. I hope I'm in the right place to suggest a change to the Elliquiy website. I also develop websites as part of my day job, so I'm not only going to gripe but also suggest a solution. When I navigate to https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php on a desktop computer, I have to hit tab 7 times to get to the user name text box or use the mouse to click in it. To automatically place focus on the user name entry box, it would be a simple matter of adding something like this bit of JavaScript:

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document.getElementsByName("user").item(0).focus();
...to the startup script when no user is logged in, and users could immediately proceed with user name entry--no mouse or tabbing necessary.

I also know from my work that fulfilling requests can have unintended, negative side effects and sometimes they just don't fit the overall design, so I understand if you can't or don't want to. But I thought I would mention it nevertheless.

Thanks for your consideration!

[Vekseid]

Done, thank you.

If you want to help out with the overall development of the site, please consider helping out the Elkarte project, as that's what I am intending to upgrade Elliquiy to once it is ready for us.

[FourStellar]

Thank you kindly!

I will check out ElkArte.

[mia h]

or if you're supporting HTML 5 (so any recent browser), then just add the autofocus attribute to the input box and save on the javascript

[Vekseid]

or if you're supporting HTML 5 (so any recent browser), then just add the autofocus attribute to the input box and save on the javascript

The current state of SMF has me beyond caring. >_>

I've been more keen on reigning this in on my Elkarte PRs, but it's still a nasty mess.