Autofocus input in twitter bootstrap modal

Question

Hi everyone!

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.

Thanks in advance!

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();
});

Autofocus input in twitter bootstrap modal

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