#30275 closed Uncategorized (worksforme)
Autofocus the first field in contrib.admin add form
| Reported by: | Nikita Ivanov | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Component: | contrib.admin | Version: | 2.1 |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | focus, autofocus |
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
The contrib.admin pages to add new instance of a model used to be autofocused in 1.9 (so just after visiting /model/add admin URL you could type in value for the first model field from keyboard). That changed in 1.10 (you need to click the first widget with mouse or press [Tab] a few times). I guess, [d638cdc42acec608c1] was the relevant commit. Still no autofocus in 2.1.
I believe, the old behavior (first item focused) is by design, see #15987, so it is a regression.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 6 years ago
comment:2 by , 6 years ago
| Resolution: | → worksforme |
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| Status: | new → closed |
No me neither... the code from 2010/2011 (74ffca17e2ca6a9f061913797efeebbc578692c5) is still there more or less unchanged — it just moved file.
The behaviour I'm seeing is correct. With both e.g. an empty field auth.Group admin and a model where the first field has a default.
I'll close on that basis, but happy to re-open if we can pin something more specific down.
I can't reproduce this with the models from the tutorial (the first field is autofocused on those add pages). Do you see the problem there or else can you give details to reproduce?