# Composing a Message starts with subject?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/composing-a-message-starts-with-subject/40120
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [February 24, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/composing-a-message-starts-with-subject/40120 "2016-02-24T20:52:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/composing-a-message-starts-with-subject/40120/1 "2016-02-24T20:52:33Z")
Does it seem strange to anyone that that when you compose a new Message to a user (or group), that the first text field highlighted is the subject rather than the recipient? (Recipient is the top field.)
This has confused a couple of our users now in field tests.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/composing-a-message-starts-with-subject/40120/2 "2016-02-25T00:17:29Z")
I see this is an issue since normally you have a target specified, e.g. when I do this:
- click on your avatar
- click “message”
- the name “downey” is already populated in the to: field, so why would I want my cursor there?
So it’s specific to “no target” invocation of the message dialog. @neil can you add this to your list?
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/composing-a-message-starts-with-subject/40120/3 "2016-02-25T00:31:20Z")
Good point. We have been doing more messaging of groups lately, so the UX is a bit different.
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/composing-a-message-starts-with-subject/40120/4 "2016-02-25T22:37:31Z")
Ok it’s on my list. The input fields are the ones demanding that they get focus, so I’ll need to move that code somewhere else.