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Asked: 2026-05-27T04:19:41+00:00

I’d like to use autofocus=autofocus in my code, but since some browsers don’t support

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I’d like to use autofocus="autofocus" in my code, but since some browsers don’t support this yet, I was thinking of adding some JS code, which would search for an element with such a tag, and focus it with JS. But since this seems to be a common requirement, I wonder if there are any ready libraries, which can take care of at least some HTML5 annoyances with older browsers?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I believe the correct answer would be not quite. Modernizr 2.0 (including html5shim) gives us semantic elements of html5 (actually the html5shim does that) and great feature detection which you can use for graceful js fallback.

    In you case It would be using jQuery .focus() with something like:

          if (!Modernizr.autofocus){
        $('input[autofocus=""]').focus();
  }

    more examples here

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