Focus and opera

Discussion in 'JavaScript' started by ahkip, Jul 7, 2006.

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    I have a html form and want to set focus on a textarea. It work in all browser except opera. Anyone got some workaround?
     
    ahkip, Jul 7, 2006 IP
  2. danielbruzual

    danielbruzual Active Member

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    Works for me in Opera 8.51 for Mac

    
<HEAD>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Original:  Tom Khoury (twaks@yahoo.com) -->


<!-- Begin
function placeFocus() {
if (document.forms.length > 0) {
var field = document.forms[0];
for (i = 0; i < field.length; i++) {
if ((field.elements[i].type == "text") || (field.elements[i].type == "textarea") || (field.elements[i].type.toString().charAt(0) == "s")) {
document.forms[0].elements[i].focus();
break;
         }
      }
   }
}
//  End -->
</script>
</HEAD>

<!-- STEP TWO: Insert the onLoad event handler into your BODY tag  -->

<BODY OnLoad="placeFocus()">

<!-- STEP THREE: Copy this code into the BODY of your HTML document  -->

<form>
<input type=text size=10>
</form>
    Code (markup):
     
    danielbruzual, Jul 7, 2006 IP
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  3. ahkip

    ahkip Prominent Member

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    thx for the help, but it doesn't work. It highlight the textarea but the cursor is not inside....

    i am using a PDA with bar code scanner. The php page should automatically go to the textarea so i don't need to tap the screen at all
     
    ahkip, Jul 10, 2006 IP