Allow controlling autofocus behavior

jimmywarting commented 7 years ago

I was annoyed by how chrome puts the cursor at the beginning of this input element

<input type="url" value="http://" autofocus>

Safari and Firefox did select the hole text which i found to be more useful

I think it could be useful if you could set a behavior with the attribute rather then it being a boolean attribute

autofocus="end" puts the cursor at the end
autofocus="start" puts the cursor in the beginning
autofocus="mark" highlight/marks the value for easy copy/cut/replace/navigate with arrow keys
autofocus default behavior

annevk commented 7 years ago

We generally don't define UI behavior. Apple in particular is usually pretty vocal about wanting to match platform conventions over everything else. You could try to convince Chrome though to change their behavior.

domenic commented 4 years ago

I think this might be an observable interop issue. See https://boom-bath.glitch.me/autofocus-range.html which prints selectionStart and selectionEnd after autofocus.

Firefox Windows: (0, 0)
Chrome Windows: (0, 0)
Chrome Mac: (0, 0)
Safari Mac: (0, 7)
Firefox Mac: (0, 0)

It seems this is just a Safari bug, as far as I can tell.

whatwg / html

Allow controlling autofocus behavior #2698