jQuery focus function not working in Firefox

Question

The following piece of code focuses the text input after you click on the link. It works fine for Chrome 2.x, IE8 and Opera 9.64 but not on Firefox 3.0.9. The text input f

Answer 1

As hinted by Daniel, the problem is the #text_field on the link. After setting the focus, Firefox is wanting to jump to that named location in the document. All you need to do is return false from your click handler.

$(field_id).focus();
return false;