When you re-order the fields in an admin add form using the fields or fieldsets options in your ModelAdmin class, the initial keyboard focus in the admin add/change form does not respect it.
The keyboard focus is set by a JavaScript call to document.getElementById("id_foo").focus(), where the ID is specified in the change_form.html template as {{adminform.first_field.auto_id}}. So an underlying issue is that AdminForm.first_field() (in contrib/admin/options.py) does not respect the re-ordering. I am experiencing this using the current Subversion HEAD, revision 8272.
For example, consider this simple model in models.py:
class MyModel(models.Model):
foo = models.CharField(max_length=255)
bar = models.CharField(max_length=255)
and this simple admin configuration in admin.py:
class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
fields = ('bar', 'foo')
admin.site.register(MyModel,MyModelAdmin)
Then try to add a new MyModel object using the admin interface, and notice that they keyboard focus starts out at the bottom rather than the top of the form.
