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Set Focus to the Next Input Field with jQuery

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I was recently faced with the problem of setting focus to the next input field. The challenge was that I didn’t know what that field was. So given an input field, find the next logical (in the order of the DOM) input field and set focus. I came up with the following jQuery function (plugin) to accomplish this:

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  1. $.fn.focusNextInputField = function() {
  2. 	return this.each(function() {
  3. 		var fields = $(this).parents('form:eq(0),body').find('button,input,textarea,select');
  4. 		var index = fields.index( this );
  5. 		if ( index > -1 && ( index + 1 ) < fields.length ) {
  6.  
  7. 			fields.eq( index + 1 ).focus();
  8. 		}
  9. 		return false;
  10. 	});
  11. };

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