Is it possible to set the FOCUS() dynamically with javascript

AJAY KUMAR · July 5th, 2007, 10:40 PM

hi,

Code:

<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript">
 
 function checkme(strVal){
 var id=strVal;
            alert(id);
     //document.all[strVal].focus();---->(IE) FOR IE it is working but not working for mozilla firefox
     document.forms[strVal].focus(); //(FIREFOX)
 }
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
NAME..<input type="text" name="empName" size="5" maxlength="4" onChange="checkme(this.value)"/><br>
ID....<input type="text" name="id" value=""/><br>
DEPT..<input type="text" name="dept" value=""/><br>
</form>
</body>
</html>

ScottR · July 7th, 2007, 11:06 AM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears that you are trying to set the focus in a textfield that maybe a username or something along those lines. IMO the best thing to do would be to use getElementById and set the focus that way. You could put it in a function and use the onload event handler in your body tag.

Code:

function selectField() {
document.getElementById("id of testfield").focus()
}

Code:

<body onload="selectField()">

Good Luck,
Scott

AJAY KUMAR · July 8th, 2007, 11:29 PM

hello firends,
finally i got the solution. As u can see my coding in the top of the page, there i have used the following code to focus it.

Code:

document.forms[0][strVal].focus();

Thank you for ur valuable support,
Ajay.