I was working on my website called WeLikeThat the other day and i was trying to think of ways to get more people to create their favourite like messages when viewing the website. I opened up a new browser window and my homepage Google appeared and i noticed that as soon as the page loads the search box is automatically active allowing me to type a search term in straight away.

I immediately did a bit of research to find out how to make my Text Area Like Box active as soon as a visitor hits the page and it’s really very simple!

Works On Text Fields and Text Areas

The following example is a text field in a form

<form name="myform">
<input type="text" name="mytextfield">
</form>

Then simple add the following code to your tag altering the form and field names to your own.

<body OnLoad="document.myform.mytextfield.focus();">

Very simple HTML that increased the number of likes created on my website by 200%! I think that by making the Text Area active it just encouraged my users to create a message. Just shows how small website changes can make a big difference.

Nick

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