### Author:  [@ccorcos](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/ccorcos)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2021, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/how-to-set-initial-focus-of-document/3476/1 "2021-02-05T08:44:48Z")
Hey there,
I want set the initial cursor in the document at the end of the first paragraph. Here’s my code so far:
```
const doc = schema.nodeFromJSON({ type: "doc", content: [{ type: "paragraph" }] })
const state = EditorState.create({/* ... */})
const view = new EditorView(node, {/* ... */})
// Focus
node.childNodes[0].focus()
// Error: Selection passed to setSelection must point at the current document
view.dispatch(
view.state.tr.setSelection(
TextSelection.atEnd(view.state.tr.doc.firstChild)
)
)
```
I’m seeing a weird error having to do with the doc being used for the selection is not the same on for the transaction? It’s a bit unclear to me what I’m supposed to do differently though.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@marijn](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/marijn)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2021, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/how-to-set-initial-focus-of-document/3476/2 "2021-02-05T09:47:25Z")
Does your state initialization set the state’s doc to `doc`? In any case, you’ll probably want to pass the new selection right away when creating the state, and call `view.focus()` instead of just the DOM focus method.
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### Author:  [@ccorcos](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/ccorcos)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/how-to-set-initial-focus-of-document/3476/3 "2021-02-05T18:28:22Z")
Ah, I get it now.
Calling `node.childNodes[0].focus()` changes the selection of the view which means that the state has changed by the time I call setSelection.
This appears to work without that error.
```
const state = EditorState.create({
selection: TextSelection.atEnd(doc.firstChild!),
/* ... */
})
view.focus()
```
However, I think I may have found a bug… This code places the cursor at one character before the end 🤔
This is the code I have:
```
const doc = schema.nodeFromJSON(initialDocJson)
const state = EditorState.create({
selection: TextSelection.atEnd(doc.firstChild!),
schema: schema,
doc: doc,
plugins: [
history(),
keymap({ "Mod-z": undo, "Mod-y": redo }),
keymap({ "Mod-b": toggleMark(schema.marks.bold) }),
],
})
```
And here is the result: [ProseMirror Examples](https://ccorcos.github.io/prosemirror-examples/#/focus)
You can repro yourself as well:
```
git clone git@github.com:ccorcos/prosemirror-examples.git
cd prosemirror-examples
npm install
npm start
open http://localhost:8080/#/focus
```
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### Author:  [@marijn](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/marijn)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2021, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/how-to-set-initial-focus-of-document/3476/4 "2021-02-08T11:15:48Z")
> [@ccorcos](#):
>
> `selection: TextSelection.atEnd(doc.firstChild!)`
`atEnd` expects the entire document, not any node (it creates a selection relative to the document it was given, which as you found doesn’t work if it only uses a given node).
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### Author:  [@ccorcos](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/ccorcos)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2021, 8:41pm UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/how-to-set-initial-focus-of-document/3476/5 "2021-02-08T20:41:03Z")
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks