Autofocus on EditorFor

Question

I would like to autofocus on an editorfor in my application, but I can\'t seem to do that. I have successfully used autofocus on a textbox, but I would like to use an editor

Answer 1

I've been following this thread and I may have stumbled on an answer to your question about autofocus on EditorFor - this is all Asp.Net 4.5 and MVC 5, not that it matters.

1. In the Scripts folder I have a jQuery script file:

   $(function(){ $('.someclassname').focus(); });

I add the script name to the BundleConfig and render it in the view.

2. In the view I add the classname to the EditorFor
3. I then add the type="text" autofocus="autofocus" to the EditorFor's @class. So, new{@class="form-control", type="text", autofocus="autofocus"
4. That's pretty much it, when the DOM loads the .someclassname field gets the cursor focus... PS. In fact if you just do (3) it works also...