How to set focus to a div?

Amir Michail

Hi,

Under Firefox, you can't scroll using the keyboard on this links page
unless you click on the div first:

http://numbrosia.com/?cmd=links

Is there a way to automatically set focus to a div?

Amir

Feb 28 '08 #1

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

Amir Michail wrote:

Under Firefox, you can't scroll using the keyboard on this links page
unless you click on the div first:

http://numbrosia.com/?cmd=links

Eww.

Why - if I scroll to the right (a no-no itself) do I find an extra
scrollbar lodged inside my own vertical scrollbar?

Why: "Please enable JavaScript." So I can see your Google ads?
(obtrusive ads are one big reason a lot of people surf with JavaScript
disabled)

Is there a way to automatically set focus to a div?

<div id="somename"... content ... </div>

and with a link of: http://example.com/mypage.html#somename

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-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

Feb 28 '08 #2

Amir Michail

On Feb 28, 2:21 pm, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
<a.nony.m...@example.invalidwrote:

Amir Michail wrote:

Under Firefox, you can't scroll using the keyboard on this links page
unless you click on the div first:

http://numbrosia.com/?cmd=links

Eww.

Why - if I scroll to the right (a no-no itself) do I find an extra
scrollbar lodged inside my own vertical scrollbar?

This is not a problem under Firefox. I don't know how to fix this
under IE7.

>
Why: "Please enable JavaScript." So I can see your Google ads?
(obtrusive ads are one big reason a lot of people surf with JavaScript
disabled)

Is there a way to automatically set focus to a div?

<div id="somename"... content ... </div>

and with a link of: http://example.com/mypage.html#somename

Yes, that works, thanks.

Amir

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

Feb 28 '08 #3

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

Amir Michail wrote:

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:

>Amir Michail wrote:

>>Under Firefox, you can't scroll using the keyboard on this links
page unless you click on the div first:

>>http://numbrosia.com/?cmd=links

Eww.

Why - if I scroll to the right (a no-no itself) do I find an extra
scrollbar lodged inside my own vertical scrollbar?

This is not a problem under Firefox. I don't know how to fix this
under IE7.

Remove the overflow:auto; ?

I would use the blue sun as a body background image, set to no-repeat,
and just place that long menu in the content. Seems simple enough.

This would also greatly reduce the scrolling lag .. to 'none'.

Your page is not scrollable at all in Opera.

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-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Vista

Feb 28 '08 #4

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

Beauregard T. Shagnasty replied to hisself:

I would use the blue sun as a body background image, set to no-repeat,
and just place that long menu in the content. Seems simple enough.

This would also greatly reduce the scrolling lag .. to 'none'.

Oh wait. The blue sun image is actual size of 1024x576 but you have
1037x628 in your code. So every time someone scrolls, the image is
trying to resize itself. Change either the code to the image size, or
resize the image to what you want on the page. Exactly.

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-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Vista

Feb 28 '08 #5

Amir Michail

On Feb 28, 3:05 pm, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
<a.nony.m...@example.invalidwrote:

Beauregard T. Shagnasty replied to hisself:

I would use the blue sun as a body background image, set to no-repeat,
and just place that long menu in the content. Seems simple enough.

This would also greatly reduce the scrolling lag .. to 'none'.

Oh wait. The blue sun image is actual size of 1024x576 but you have
1037x628 in your code. So every time someone scrolls, the image is
trying to resize itself. Change either the code to the image size, or
resize the image to what you want on the page. Exactly.

I wanted to resize the image to the current window size. So I used a
hack I found on the web to do that.

Amir

--
-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Vista

Feb 28 '08 #6

Bergamot

Amir Michail wrote:

>
I wanted to resize the image to the current window size. So I used a
hack I found on the web to do that.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

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Berg

Feb 28 '08 #7

Amir Michail

On Feb 28, 4:36 pm, Bergamot <berga...@visi.comwrote:

Amir Michail wrote:

I wanted to resize the image to the current window size. So I used a
hack I found on the web to do that.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Why not? One would expect a non-repeating puzzle/game background to
scale to the window size.

Amir

--
Berg

Feb 28 '08 #8

Michael Fesser

..oO(Amir Michail)

>On Feb 28, 4:36 pm, Bergamot <berga...@visi.comwrote:

>Amir Michail wrote:

I wanted to resize the image to the current window size. So I used a
hack I found on the web to do that.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Why not? One would expect a non-repeating puzzle/game background to
scale to the window size.

Not really. Or maybe it's just me who finds such distorted images ugly?
At first it wasn't even clear to me what this blue egg was supposed to
be (my browser viewport is almost a square at the moment) ...

Micha

Feb 28 '08 #9