Question

I am trying to set focus to the input text field with id=”message-add” when it is showed using jQuery. I think i should use ‘live()’ or ‘delegate’ and the function focus() to get it to work? Which should be used and how should it be written?

$("#message-add").show();
$("#message-add").focus();

Answer 1

Here is one way to do it, if the input is hidden, which is what I think the Q is stating?

<button>Show</button>
<input id="message-add" />

$('#message-add').hide();

$('button').click(function(){
    $('#message-add').show().focus();    
});

http://jsfiddle.net/jasongennaro/FhB8u/