Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:33:23 UTC
It is extremely cumbersome to first click into the search box before being able to enter text on the main page. Of course there's always Alt+f, but these are two buttons too many, at least on the main page. If the search box should have focus on non-main pages can be discussed, since it may be nice to give focus to the first link of the content, for accessibility reasons. I would propose to to add tabindex="1" to <input id="searchInput" name="search" type="text" accesskey="f" value="" /> which will give focus to the search box after one tab hit (don't use '0' for the tabindex, since other elements would get focus first then). For those who have ECMAScript enabled, add an attribute onLoad="setFocus()" to the <body> element, and specify a function function setFocus() { document.search.focus(); } which gives focus to the search box on page-load.
Aside from the tabindex and the Main Page suggestion this is a dupe of bug 1864, please add your comments to that bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1864 ***
