<head>
<script src="jquery.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
if (!("autofocus" in document.createElement("input"))) {
$("#q").focus();
}
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="f">
<input id="q" autofocus>
<input type="submit" value="Go">
</form>
</body>
jQuery fires its custom ready event as soon as the page DOM is available — that is, it waits until the page text is loaded, but it doesn’t wait until all the images are loaded. This is not an optimal approach — if the page is unusually large or the network connection is unusually slow, a user could still start interacting with the page before your focus script executes. But it is still far better than waiting until the window.onload event fires.