# Set Auto Focus in text\_ui in dashboard

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/set-auto-focus-in-text-ui-in-dashboard/49894
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [19 August 2021 02:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/set-auto-focus-in-text-ui-in-dashboard/49894 "2021-08-19T02:33:03Z")
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### Author: ![luisof16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecd19e/32.png) [@luisof16](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/luisof16)
#### Post date: [19 August 2021 02:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/set-auto-focus-in-text-ui-in-dashboard/49894/1 "2021-08-19T02:33:03Z")

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Hello everyone I ´m newbie in Node Red , I try to set autofocus in text\_ui in dashboard, I was reading this forum: [UI Text Input Focus - #3 by coffeegoat](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-text-input-focus/8053/3) but isn´t working maybe I don´t understand how do it, I attached some screenshoots of my configuration. ![ws](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/4/1/415c1d0a9834ff40a7caa51cca6304bd92c5719e.jpeg)

 ![ws1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/b/1/b1bd27c952567a14fa4522dc63bc607f204aac69.jpeg)  
 ![ws2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/a/f/afae51b436ac03ff1b1e6dfe79ceb9bbbcb67a7d.jpeg)

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### Author: ![UnborN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/4491bb/32.png) [@UnborN](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/UnborN)
#### Post date: [19 August 2021 11:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/set-auto-focus-in-text-ui-in-dashboard/49894/2 "2021-08-19T11:26:27Z")

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In your code you are trying to target an element with id `ControlCode`  
but If you open your browser's developers tools and inspect that input element's id,  
`ControlCode` is not used but a random name `'input_0' 'input_1'`

try to target it some other way .. possibly by its html tag type  
If its only one input you have on the page then try

```auto
setTimeout( () => { document.querySelector('input').focus() }, 200)

```

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### Author: ![luisof16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecd19e/32.png) [@luisof16](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/luisof16)
#### Post date: [24 August 2021 03:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/set-auto-focus-in-text-ui-in-dashboard/49894/3 "2021-08-24T03:34:53Z")

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Thank you so much

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [7 September 2021 03:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/set-auto-focus-in-text-ui-in-dashboard/49894/4 "2021-09-07T03:35:28Z")

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