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Asked: 2026-05-13T12:53:20+00:00

when you click on ‘Ask question’ here in Stackoverflow you see a text What’s

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when you click on ‘Ask question’ here in Stackoverflow you see a text “What’s your programming question? Be descriptive.”

i want the same thing and all i need for that is to move my cursor to the beginning of the text field. how do i do that with jquery?

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  1. Editorial Team

    May be that is an overkill, but these functions are helpful to select a portion of an input field.

    The code below place the cursor to the first char of the second field.

    <html>
<head>
    <title>so</title>
</head>
<body>
    <input value="stack" />
    <input value="overflow" />
    <script>
        var inp = document.getElementsByTagName('INPUT')[1];
        if (inp.createTextRange) {
            var part = inp.createTextRange();
            part.move("character", 0);
            part.select();
        } else if (inp.setSelectionRange) {
            inp.setSelectionRange(0, 0);
        }
        inp.focus();
    </script>
</body>
</html>
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