Set textbox focus in mobile safari

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Published on 2010-03-07T23:54:33Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 0:01 UTC
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Hey, i was wondering how to set the focus to a textbox in mobile safari.

I've tried document.myForm.myTextArea.focus(); which works in regular safari, but it does not seem to work in mobile safari.

To clarify, i want to set focus to a text box as soon as the user loads a page, and have the iphone keyboard pop up.

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