Question

I’m trying to bring the typing cursor to beginning of the input text by this code with no success. What is the issue?

HTML

<input value="text"/>

JavaScript(jQuery)

$('input').focus(function(){
  $(this).delay(100).trigger(jQuery.Event("keydown",{keyCode: 36, which: 36}));
});

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Answer 1

So, the problem is not really pressing home but moving cursor to beginning of the texbox I assune.

Checking this answer: move cursor to the beginning of the input field?
Generally the approach is right, but it doesn’t seem to work directly

I have modified it to fit your jQuery on focus case:

$('input').focus(function(){
    var input = this;
    // for some reason, putting directly doesn't work
    setTimeout(function() { 
        if (input.createTextRange) {
                var part = input.createTextRange();
                part.moveat("character", 0);
                part.moveEnd("character", 0);
                part.select();
            }
        else if (input.setSelectionRange){
                input.setSelectionRange(0,0);
        }
    }, 0);
});

Live example:
http://jsfiddle.net/sF334/

If you want to trigger the focus itself, then you can do it as:

$('input').trigger('focus');
// use some unique selector instead in real example, like ID

Note it returns to before the first character on focus, but allows you to move and change selection later as you wish, as soon as you change focus and come back, it’ll return to initial position again.