Title: Focus onload
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Focus onload

 *  [ImperfectSense](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imperfectsense/)
 * (@imperfectsense)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/focus-onload/)
 * I’d like to have the first field of my form in focus and ready to be typed into
   as soon as it loads. I’ve tried variations on adding an HTML element to that 
   page of the form and inserting code like this:
 *     ```
       <script>
       window.onload = function() {
           document.getElementById('fld_5490783').focus();
       };
       </script>
       ```
   
 * But so far no cigar. Is this possible?
 * Here is the URL to the published form: [http://historicflight.org/hf/photobooth/](http://historicflight.org/hf/photobooth/)
 * Thanks,
    -Liz
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/caldera-forms/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/caldera-forms/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [David Cramer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/desertsnowman/)
 * (@desertsnowman)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/focus-onload/#post-6093201)
 * hi there,
    it should be possible with scripts. I think you’ll just need to play
   with it a little to get the right field loading at the right time. maybe use 
   a custom class over the ID.

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## Tags

 * [function](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/function/)
 * [onload](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/onload/)
 * [script](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/script/)

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/focus-onload/#post-6093201)
 * Status: not resolved