diff --git a/templates/repo/issue/new_form.tmpl b/templates/repo/issue/new_form.tmpl
index 058ea8d73..88a6c39e5 100644
--- a/templates/repo/issue/new_form.tmpl
+++ b/templates/repo/issue/new_form.tmpl
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 				{{ctx.AvatarUtils.Avatar .SignedUser 40}}
 				<div class="ui segment content tw-my-0">
 					<div class="field">
-						<input name="title" id="issue_title" placeholder="{{ctx.Locale.Tr "repo.milestones.title"}}" value="{{if .TitleQuery}}{{.TitleQuery}}{{else if .IssueTemplateTitle}}{{.IssueTemplateTitle}}{{else}}{{.title}}{{end}}" autofocus required maxlength="255" autocomplete="off">
+						<input name="title" class="js-autofocus-end" id="issue_title" placeholder="{{ctx.Locale.Tr "repo.milestones.title"}}" value="{{if .TitleQuery}}{{.TitleQuery}}{{else if .IssueTemplateTitle}}{{.IssueTemplateTitle}}{{else}}{{.title}}{{end}}" required maxlength="255" autocomplete="off">
 						{{if .PageIsComparePull}}
 							<div class="title_wip_desc" data-wip-prefixes="{{JsonUtils.EncodeToString .PullRequestWorkInProgressPrefixes}}">{{ctx.Locale.Tr "repo.pulls.title_wip_desc" (index .PullRequestWorkInProgressPrefixes 0)}}</div>
 						{{end}}
diff --git a/web_src/js/features/autofocus-end.js b/web_src/js/features/autofocus-end.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..da71ce953
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web_src/js/features/autofocus-end.js
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+export function initAutoFocusEnd() {
+  for (const el of document.querySelectorAll('.js-autofocus-end')) {
+    el.focus(); // expects only one such element on one page. If there are many, then the last one gets the focus.
+    el.setSelectionRange(el.value.length, el.value.length);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/web_src/js/index.js b/web_src/js/index.js
index abf0d469d..4c707486b 100644
--- a/web_src/js/index.js
+++ b/web_src/js/index.js
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import {initImageDiff} from './features/imagediff.js';
 import {initRepoMigration} from './features/repo-migration.js';
 import {initRepoProject} from './features/repo-projects.js';
 import {initTableSort} from './features/tablesort.js';
+import {initAutoFocusEnd} from './features/autofocus-end.js';
 import {initAdminUserListSearchForm} from './features/admin/users.js';
 import {initAdminConfigs} from './features/admin/config.js';
 import {initMarkupAnchors} from './markup/anchors.js';
@@ -122,6 +123,7 @@ onDomReady(() => {
   initSshKeyFormParser();
   initStopwatch();
   initTableSort();
+  initAutoFocusEnd();
   initFindFileInRepo();
   initCopyContent();