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Is there a way to set the focus in a specific HTML input (a textarea control, actually), without using Javascript?
EDIT: Is possible in HTML5 but the question is about HTML < 5
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To set focus to an HTML form element, the focus() method of JavaScript can be used. To do so, call this method on an object of the element that is to be focused, as shown in the example. Example 1: The focus() method is set to the input tag when user clicks on Focus button.
The first input or textarea in source order that has the autofocus attribute will be focused on page load. In browsers without autofocus support, no fields will be focused on page load, unless otherwise given focus with JavaScript.
You can use autofocus in HTML5 documents, but it has little support at present (see chart).
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Nope. Sadly JavaScript is required, because it's dynamically modifying the browser on the client-side (what JavaScript was made for).
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