davidannis Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 I have a form and want to avoid having the user need to select the text input field every time the page loads, so I added the autofocus attribute. It worked for a while, I changed nothing, but then it stopped working. Here's the section of code: <form method="POST" action="vocab_quiz.php"> <input type="text" name="answer" autofocus="autofocus" autocomplete="off"><br> <input type="hidden" name="dictionary_id" value="23516"> <input type="hidden" name="deck_id" value="4"> <input type="hidden" name="box" value="4"> <input type="submit" value="Check My Answer"> </form> When I try to validate the page at w3.org I get the following errors, which I don't understand. Error Line 106, Column 57: No space between attributes. … <input type="text" name="answer" autofocus="autofocus" autocomplete="off… ✉ Warning Line 106, Column 98: Attribute autofocus is not serializable as XML 1.0. … <input type="text" name="answer" autofocus="autofocus" autocomplete="off"><br> ✉ Error Line 106, Column 98: Attribute autofocus not allowed on element input at this point. … <input type="text" name="answer" autofocus="autofocus" autocomplete="off"><br> Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/287935-autofocus-not-working/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberRobot Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 Note that the autofocus attribute only works in newer browsers like Internet Explorer 10. Did you switch browsers? More information about the attribute and it's browser support can be found here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Input Also, it looks like the attribute is being added like you're using XHTML. If your page is set to be HTML 5, try changing autofocus="autofocus" ...to just autofocus Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/287935-autofocus-not-working/#findComment-1476956 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution davidannis Posted April 22, 2014 Author Solution Share Posted April 22, 2014 I think that I finally figured it out. Turns out the space between name="answer" autofocus="autofocus" was typed in a foreign character set (I've been switching back and forth between Japanese and English). Hence, the error message: Error Line 106, Column 57: No space between attributes. just deleting the space and retyping it fixed it. Also, it looks like the attribute is being added like you're using XHTML. If your page is set to be HTML 5, try changingautofocus="autofocus"...to justautofocus I believe that this page was once XHTML but I changed it because the top lines are: <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> Seems to work either way in both Firefox and Chrome but I changed it to just autofocus. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/287935-autofocus-not-working/#findComment-1476971 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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