Cannot set focus on a textbox in IE8

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IE8 seems to be the bane of my existence lately. I am trying to set focus when a new step is created in my application. Here is my code:

$(this).stepField('action_description').focus();

This works in all other browsers I've tested with (Firefox, Chrome, Safari). It even works in IE9, but not IE8. Any help would be vastly appreciated. Thanks.

`stepField` ? Is that a plugin ? What does it return in IE8 ? — Denys Séguret, Oct 05 '12 at 18:41
yea can you tell us what stepField is doing? does it work witout stepField? — Huangism, Oct 05 '12 at 18:53
stepField is merely a function to return the name of the step: `stepField: function(name) { return this.step().find(':input[name="step[' + name + ']"]'); },` — Jason Bodak, Oct 05 '12 at 19:32

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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To work in ie8 :

    setTimeout(function() {
        $('#myElement').focus();
    }, 10);

SO source: jQuery focus() sometimes not working in IE8

Issue documented by MS : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979954

edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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answered Oct 05 '12 at 18:44

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I don't have technical details, but I have seen documentation that says this method allows IE/Windows to sequence statement execution correctly. Some more details : http://javascript.gakaa.com/div-focus-4-0-5-.aspx – nicholmikey Oct 05 '12 at 18:51
leave the source where you took the other SO answer from – Scott Selby Oct 05 '12 at 18:51
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@Jason Bodak http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1326993/jquery-focus-sometimes-not-working-in-ie8 – Scott Selby Oct 05 '12 at 18:51
No problem. Also, here is the issue documented by MS http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979954 – nicholmikey Oct 05 '12 at 18:53
but that's setting focus on the window, I don't think that's the case here – Huangism Oct 05 '12 at 18:54
I tried Nicholmikey's solution, but alas, it did not fix the problem. – Jason Bodak Oct 05 '12 at 19:44

Cannot set focus on a textbox in IE8

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