Autofocus does not work in form inside a partial view using MVC3 Razor - forms

Question

I am using MVC 3 Razor and I have a simple form in a PartialView [I am showing this as a popup window]. Some of the features are not working properly in PartialView. For example the autofocus attribute.
#Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Code, new { style = "width:50px", maxlength = 4, autofocus = "" })
I have tried setting the focus through jQuery script but that doesn't work either.
$('#Code').focus();
Am I missing something? Do I have to import some scripts in my partial view for this to work?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance.
Update:
I found the problem... I was loading the window and then showing it after a delay of 700ms. I commented out the setTimeout line and it worked. It must be that the focus worked when form loaded but when I actually did the "open()" it lost focus again.
Previous Code
function openWindow(url, title) {
var window = $("#Window").data("tWindow");
window.ajaxRequest(url);
window.title(title);
setTimeout(showWindow, 700);
}
function showWindow() {
var window = $("#Window").data("tWindow");
window.open().center();
}
New Code
function openWindow(url, title) {
var window = $("#Window").data("tWindow");
window.ajaxRequest(url);
window.title(title).open().center();;
//setTimeout(showWindow, 700);
}
Thanks everyone for your replies. Hope it helps someone.

Answer 1

Try this code:
function openWindow(url, title) {
var window = $("#Window").data("tWindow");
window.ajaxRequest(url);
window.title(title).open().center();
//call after the content has been loaded from the Ajax request
document.getElementById('Code').focus();
}