how to shift focus to result of form submission

Give the alert an id attribute and put the fragment identifier in the form action. This is how it can be done in the Drupal form API:

Hi, the id in drupal is 'messages' , but how can I put that into the drupal form api without modifying the core ?
thank you,
diana

How are you making the form?

I am talking about the forms for the login and contact form, I am not using a custom module, although I do modify the template using a function in the template.php that calls the templates , user-login.tpl.php and contact-site-form.tpl.php
so where can I I modify the form action as you recomend above.

You can probably use hook_form_alter() to do what you need.

okay i've added this in my template.php in the function

mythemename_form_alter 
if ($form_id == 'contact_site_form'){
 $form['#action'] = '?#messages';
}

but the focus still does not go to the div which has the id messages when you submit the form using the keyboard.

Does #messages appear in the URL after you submit the form? Have you checked that the hook implementation is actually running? (Use dsm() from the Coder module.) The hook implementation might have to be in a module, not a theme.

after I submit the form, where "root_url/contact" used to be in the url before I added this, now it has
"root_url/#messages" as the url
so the hook implementation is running.

how can I tell where the focus is anyways?

The page will scroll to the focus point, if the fragment is pointing to an id attribute that exists.

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