this snippet didn't work?
$('reply_form').show().focus();
and also this:
$('reply_form').show();Form.Element.focus('reply_form');
why?
the element is a textarea with an id 'reply_form', and has a inline style with 'display:none;'(i know this is not a best practise, but writing the display style externally in a css file , the show function didn't work as the prototype doc said); the 'show()' part works, but the focus is not.
Hmm, it works well for me:
HTML code:
<textarea id="reply_form" style="display:none"></textarea>
JS code:
$('reply_form').show().focus();
And I'm using Prototype 1.6.0.3. What is your version of library?
Did you register any event action (onload, onclick) for this? ;-)