# Is there anyway to have it autoselect a textbox when a page opens?

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-have-it-autoselect-a-textbox-when-a-page-opens/79979>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [February 11, 2025, 9:55am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-have-it-autoselect-a-textbox-when-a-page-opens/79979 "2025-02-11T09:55:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![MattGlides](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@MattGlides](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattGlides)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 9:55am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-have-it-autoselect-a-textbox-when-a-page-opens/79979/1 "2025-02-11T09:55:17Z")

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So we have a textbox for workers to scan a code into:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/e/0/e0cf91a9307fe5f1eb21e97a85bfad6b80a31174.png)

However some of them won’t click on the box itself before scanning, aware it’s a training problem but I’m curious if there’s any way to make it auto select the textbox as soon as the page opens so that the “cursor” is inside the box and they can just scan and it’ll auto-input.

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-have-it-autoselect-a-textbox-when-a-page-opens/79979/2 "2025-02-13T00:22:59Z")

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Not something that I know of, but I agree there are some cases that this would be useful.

But would you consider having a button for them instead of something like a textbox?

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-have-it-autoselect-a-textbox-when-a-page-opens/79979/3 "2025-02-15T04:02:36Z")

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![CleanShot 2025-02-15 at 10.59.30@2x](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/c/6/c69f59078a899cd79f6e841fa4bb445dd355f99e.png)

That got shipped very quickly.

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**Author:** ![MattGlides](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@MattGlides](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattGlides)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-have-it-autoselect-a-textbox-when-a-page-opens/79979/4 "2025-02-20T16:12:05Z")

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Only saw this now, amazing.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-have-it-autoselect-a-textbox-when-a-page-opens/79979/5 "2025-02-27T16:12:11Z")

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