Question

If I have a form with the placeholder attribute like so:

<input type="text" name="something" placeholder="username" />
<input type="text" name="somethingelse" placeholder="password" />

When I come to the page with the above form, by default the first text field is focused, i.e. has the cursor in it. This is a problem since I’m using the placeholder text as the labels for the text fields. So if the username field is focused that placeholder text isn’t there leaving something confused as to what they should enter in that field.

Answer 1

You could force focus to something else through javascript

jQuery(function($){
  $(".someotherelement").focus();
});