Example
A button with autofocus:
<button type="button" autofocus>Click Me!</button>
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Definition and Usage
The autofocus attribute is a boolean attribute.
When present, it specifies that a button should automatically get focus when the page loads.
Browser Support
The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the attribute.
| Attribute | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| autofocus | 5.0 | 10.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 9.6 |
Differences Between HTML 4.01 and HTML5
The autofocus attribute is new for the <button> tag in HTML5.
Differences Between HTML and XHTML
In XHTML, attribute minimization is forbidden, and the autofocus attribute must be defined as <button autofocus="autofocus">.
Syntax
<button type="button" autofocus>