how to do autofocus in mvc3 razor view

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Hi am trying to do autofocus in my view page.I tried the below coding but it focusing the label not Textbox

C#

<div class="contact_form">
    <div class="contact_form1">
    @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Prefix)
    </div>
    @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Prefix, new { autofocus = "autofocus",
    @class = "name_form" })
    @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Prefix)
    </div>

any one please help me to get out of this problem

Posted 21-Aug-12 18:35pm

kevin_ze

Updated 21-Aug-12 19:27pm

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Karthik. A · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-22T05:51:00

Solution 1

Check the following SO link:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2998247/asp-net-mvc-html-textbox-set-autofocus-property[^]

Else, in case you are using jQuery, you could simply do,

JavaScript

$('.name_form').focus();

Hope this helps!

Posted 22-Aug-12 5:51am

Karthik. A