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Asked: 2026-05-31T20:28:53+00:00

It seems that i cannot call focus() on a textarea of my chrome extensions

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It seems that i cannot call focus() on a textarea of my chrome extensions popup when it gets opened / after ondomready.

i have something like that in popup.js :

$(document).ready(function () {
   console.log($("#moped-text"));
   $('textarea').focus();   
   $('.container').css("color", "red");
});

i reference it in popup.html like that:

<html>
  <head>

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/content.css" type="text/css">

    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/lib/jquery.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/popup.js"></script>
  </head>
 <body>
       <div class="container">
            <textarea name="newText"></textarea>
       </div>     
 </body>

The css-change works, the focus() does not!

When i debug the popup and type $(‘textarea’).focus(); in the console, it works.
Also events added inside the ready-callback are bound successfully.

Any help highly appreciated!

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1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    i still don’t know, why the focus is not set at the first place, but a simple timeout does the job 🙂

    setTimeout(function() {
  $('#moped-text').focus();
}, 500);
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