Cursor placement when using Find or Search
I have just recently experience a bank account that when I have to enter by account, the cursor is in the box. Interestingly, it surprisingly does not happen with my other accounts; but it taught me that it can be done.
FamilySearch Find and Search brings up a search box and I use it most often to enter an ID. A cursor in that box would help so much. I have read through previous suggestions but no understanding of where it has gone.
I am suggesting the program to updated to have a cursor in the box before anyone enters anything. It would surely help the patrons and such a simple thing in such places would be very beneficial.
Thank you for listening and considering.
Answers
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My search shows a cursor as a blinking vertical line.
@anneyw can you check this page?0 -
I was able to open the page you sent and there was no cursor. After I "click" in the box, the blinking cursor appears.
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I would expect, on any website, to have to click in a text field before I saw a cursor there. I am sure there are website programming techniques that automate this, but it really doesn't feel like much of a gap at all to me.
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So far, the only place I've come across the "flashing cursor" has been when using "Recents".
I'm quite happy to accept some websites do have this feature and some don't - as long as there is consistency. With FamilySearch, I guess I've got used to having to click inside the box before I start typing, but with many other websites I often look up from the keyboard and discover my "input" has produced nothing! Oh to be a touch typist!
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Yes, there are ways to automatically have the focus be in a particular input field when a page is opened. I do not know why FS is so inconsistent in utilizing this, especially in contexts (such as searching/adding by ID) where there is only one input field. Perhaps they're expecting browsers to provide that function? (It's not clear to me whether they can or can't.)
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What was the term you used a while back - click creep? A person is either a principal in a record or not. Why do we have to select principal and then click the box? Same concept, IMHO.
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