Strange cursor placement in modal when using autofocus in Internet Explorer

Question

I'm having an issue with the cursor placement when using autofocus in IE. The image should display the issue clearly.

Luckily I've been able to reproduce this in a plunker. I've stripped it down to the bare essentials, so it should be easy enough to see what's going on.

How do I make IE behave?

AngularJS (Also available in the plunker)

app.directive('autofocus', [
  '$timeout', function($timeout) {
      return function(scope, elem, attr) {
          scope.$on('autofocus', function(e) {
              $timeout(function() {
                  elem[0].focus();
              });
          });
      };
  }
]);

/* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14833326/how-to-set-focus-in-angularjs */
app.factory('autofocus', ['$rootScope', '$timeout', function($rootScope, $timeout) {
  return function() {
      $timeout(function() {
          $rootScope.$broadcast('autofocus');
      });
  };
}]);

app.config(['$stateProvider', function ($stateProvider) {
    $stateProvider.state('main', {
        url: '/main'
    });
}]);

app.config(['$stateProvider', function ($stateProvider) {
    $stateProvider.state('main.modal', {
        url: '/modal',
        onEnter: ['$state', '$stateParams', '$modal', 'autofocus',
            function ($state, $stateParams, $modal, autofocus) {
                var instance = $modal.open({
                    templateUrl: 'modal.html'
                });
                instance.result.then(function () {
                    // OK
                    // GOTO parent state
                    $state.go('^');
                }, function () {
                    // Cancel
                    // GOTO parent state
                    $state.go('^');
                });
                instance.opened.then(function() {
                  autofocus();
                });
            }
        ]
    });
}]);

Markup

<form>
  <div class="modal-header">
      <h3 class="modal-title">I'm a modal!</h3>
  </div>
  <div class="modal-body">
      <input type="text" name="foo" autofocus>
      <br>
      <input type="text" name="bar">
  </div>
  <div class="modal-footer">
      <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">OK</button>
      <button type="button" class="btn btn-warning" ng-click="$dismiss()">Cancel</button>
  </div>
</form>

Answer 1

Thank you for documenting this issue and for the diagnose. This was the only topic I could find about this and it seems like a frequent problem. Isn't this script sollution bit of an overkill?

css sollution for the problem::

.modal.fade {
transition:opacity .3s linear;
}

It kills the slide in effect but leaves the fade in.

Answer 2

It seems like i might be the "slide"-animation which is to blame. i managed to fix this by forcing the modal to fade in without sliding, by adding "windowClass: modal fade in" like so:

app.config(['$stateProvider', function ($stateProvider) {
    $stateProvider.state('main.modal', {
        url: '/modal',
        onEnter: ['$state', '$stateParams', '$modal', 'autofocus',
            function ($state, $stateParams, $modal, autofocus) {
                var instance = $modal.open({
                    templateUrl: 'modal.html',
                    windowClass: 'modal fade in'
                });
                instance.result.then(function () {
                    // OK
                    // GOTO parent state
                    $state.go('^');
                }, function () {
                    // Cancel
                    // GOTO parent state
                    $state.go('^');
                });
                instance.opened.then(function() {
                  autofocus();
                });
            }
        ]
    });
}]);