Autofocus input in twitter bootstrap modal

Question

I have such problem - I need to autofocus some element inside twitter bootstrap modal (after it shows). The tricky part is here - content of this modal is loaded using 'data-remote' (jQuery.load method) from separate HTML file, so

$(document).on('shown', ".modal", function() {     $('[autofocus]', this).focus(); }); 

works only if modal was loaded before.
The question is - how to make autofocus work at the first time modal loads?

Answer 1

I'm using Bootstrap 3.0 (hopefully, this works with 3.1 as well).

We had to use tabindex="-1" because that allows the ESC key to close the modal.

So I was able to fix this issue using:

// Every time a modal is shown, if it has an autofocus element, focus on it. $('.modal').on('shown.bs.modal', function() {   $(this).find('[autofocus]').focus(); }); 

Answer 2

try removing tabindex="-1" and it works fine.

<div class="modal fade" id="modalID" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">  <div class="modal fade" id="modalID" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true"> 

Hope this helps!