jQuery: how to find first visible input/select/textarea excluding buttons?
Solution 1:
Why not just target the ones you want (demo)?
$('form').find('input[type=text],textarea,select').filter(':visible:first');
Edit
Or use jQuery :input selector to filter form descendants.
$('form').find('*').filter(':input:visible:first');
Solution 2:
The JQuery code is fine. You must execute in the ready handler not in the window load event.
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
var aspForm = $("form#aspnetForm");
var firstInput = $(":input:not(input[type=button],input[type=submit],button):visible:first", aspForm);
firstInput.focus();
});
</script>
Update
I tried with the example of Karim79(thanks for the example) and it works fine: http://jsfiddle.net/2sMfU/
Solution 3:
This is my summary of the above and works perfectly for me. Thanks for the info!
<script language='javascript' type='text/javascript'>
$(document).ready(function () {
var firstInput = $('form').find('input[type=text],input[type=password],input[type=radio],input[type=checkbox],textarea,select').filter(':visible:first');
if (firstInput != null) {
firstInput.focus();
}
});
</script>
Solution 4:
This is an improvement over @Mottie's answer because as of jQuery 1.5.2 :text
selects input
elements that have no specified type
attribute (in which case type="text"
is implied):
$('form').find(':text,textarea,select').filter(':visible:first')
Solution 5:
Here is my solution. The code should be easy enough to follow but here is the idea:
- get all inputs, selects, and textareas
- filter out all buttons and hidden fields
- filter to only enabled, visible fields
- select the first one
- focus the selected field
The code:
function focusFirst(parent) {
$(parent).find('input, textarea, select')
.not('input[type=hidden],input[type=button],input[type=submit],input[type=reset],input[type=image],button')
.filter(':enabled:visible:first')
.focus();
}
Then simply call focusFirst with your parent element or selector.
Selector:
focusFirst('form#aspnetForm');
Element:
var el = $('form#aspnetForm');
focusFirst(el);