Remove non-functional and inaccessible auto-focus on first field in page create forms

CHANGELOG.txt

@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ Changelog
  * Maintenance: Migrate styleguide ad-hoc JavaScript to use styles only to avoid CSP issues (LB (Ben) Johnston)
  * Maintenance: Update Jest version - frontend tooling (Nandini Arora)
  * Maintenance: Add more CSS authoring guidelines (Thibaud Colas)
+ * Maintenance: Remove non-functional and inaccessible auto-focus on first field in page create forms (LB (Ben) Johnston)
 
 
 5.2.3 (xx.xx.xxxx) - IN DEVELOPMENT

docs/releases/6.0.md

@@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ Thank you to Thibaud Colas and Badr Fourane for their work on this feature.
  * Remove inline script usage for comment initialization and adopt an event listener/dispatch approach for better CSP compliance (Aditya, LB (Ben) Johnston)
  * Migrate styleguide ad-hoc JavaScript to use styles only to avoid CSP issues (LB (Ben) Johnston)
  * Update Jest version - frontend tooling (Nandini Arora)
+ * Remove non-functional and inaccessible auto-focus on first field in page create forms (LB (Ben) Johnston)
 
 ## Upgrade considerations - removal of deprecated features from Wagtail 4.2 - 5.1
 

wagtail/admin/templates/wagtailadmin/pages/create.html

@@ -56,8 +56,6 @@
         {% endif %}
 
         $(function(){
-            $('#page-edit-form .tab-content section.active input').first().trigger('focus');
-
             /* Make user confirm before leaving the editor if there are unsaved changes */
             {% trans "This page has unsaved changes." as confirmation_message %}
             enableDirtyFormCheck(