This is an easy one that I have been asked about a number of times before. I always recommend that you wrap your content area in a containing div to separate it from other portions of the page. Namespacing your DOM will keep your javascript and css from bleeding over into other panels unexpectedly. Hence the div#content. So, to automatically select the first element in the form on your page, all you need is this: [js]$("div#content form :input:visible:first").focus();[/js]If you want the first empty element, then you just need to change it to:[js]$("div#content form :input:visible:first[value='']").focus();[/js]You may be wondering why I did :input:visible instead of just :text, and that is because I want to get any input elements that are on the screen, not just text inputs. Using :input will return input, textarea, select, and button elements. Adding :visible will not only filter out visibly hidden forms, but also type='hidden' input elements as well.