User Experience Theorist. Writer. Epicure.

OK to Put Cursor in Search Field on Page Load?

April 4th, 2007

I used to think it was a great idea to force the cursor into the Search field upon page load, but with the advent of the Firefox search toolbar (or Google Toolbar in IE), I more commonly encounter situations where this annoys me.

For a site like Google, where searching is the only option, this still makes sense. Does it for sites that aren’t totally search-based?