From the course: Building HTML5 Forms with Dreamweaver
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Making entry intuitive with autofocus - Dreamweaver Tutorial
From the course: Building HTML5 Forms with Dreamweaver
Making entry intuitive with autofocus
- [Narrator] A focused input is one that is alive, so to speak, ready for input, with the insertion point right inside the field, and here at Bing, the search engine, the search field is all ready to go. Same thing if we go to Google, notice that the insertion point is already blinking in the search field. Now you may be thinking doesn't that happen automatically? No, it doesn't, or maybe you're thinking well there's only one field there. Obviously the insertion point should be inside of it, but that doesn't happen automatically either. Let me show you a negative example. Here there's only one field, it's asking for an email address, and that email address is not yet focused until I click inside of it. That's forcing users to do one extra and unnecessary click, and, even if you have a form with multiple fields, it's often good to have one that, by default, is focused. Let's see how our form is doing. Well, right now, there is no auto-focused input. Let's fix that, so we'll go back…
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