For usability, Drupal should focus on the first relevant form field

For a basic, but nice, usability improvement Drupal, for all pages where a form is the center of attention, the first form field that people should type in should have the keyboard focus given to it.

Here's a method for doing it with JQuery: http://www.gerd-riesselmann.net/development/focus-first-form-field-with-jquery

This would have to skip the search field, which is often at the top, unless the search field were the only form field on a page, in which case it might make a lot of sense to target the search field. It should also not focus on send-to-friend and other miscellaneous fields in sidebars or other non-main forms.

Of course, there's a module for that^TM

http://drupal.org/project/focus

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