Radio Button and focus

[Stuart]

I have a page where I utilise the left and right cursor keys to change an
image, also on this page is a groups of radio buttons, unfortunately when a
radio button is clicked the focus for the cursor keys goes to the radio
buttons and any subsequent cursor key presses scroll through the radio
buttons.

How do I take focus away from the radio buttons after they have been clicked
?

[Stuart]

"Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" <Po*********@we b.de> wrote in message
news:54******** ********@Pointe dEars.de...

Stuart wrote:

"Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn"

Well, you crippling your own keyboard navigation deliberately certainly
strikes me as being an issue ...

What navigation is there to do on that page other than scroll through the
images? Personally I can,t think of a better way of viewing these images
than to use the cursor keys!

Read again. With blur() you are _preventing_ yourself from using the
cursor keys again (or require yourself to tab back). You are looking
for focus()ing another control onclick or for another UI approach.
PointedEars

I have never suggested blurring anything

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Stuart wrote:

"Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" <Po*********@we b.de> wrote [...]

Stuart wrote:

"Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn"
Well, you crippling your own keyboard navigation deliberately certainly
strikes me as being an issue ...
What navigation is there to do on that page other than scroll through
the images? Personally I can,t think of a better way of viewing these
images than to use the cursor keys!

Read again. With blur() you are _preventing_ yourself from using the
cursor keys again (or require yourself to tab back). You are looking
for focus()ing another control onclick or for another UI approach.
[...]

I have never suggested blurring anything

True, however

,-[news:11******** *************@g 44g2000cwa.goog legroups.com]
| You can use the blur method.

,-[news:43******** *************** @per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au]
| > How do I take focus away from the radio buttons after they have been
| > clicked ?
| Not everyone navigates with a mouse, or even has a mouse.

But, with the "page in question" you provided, the logical design
choice is indeed either to use the blur() method of the radio button
on click. I quick-tested that with

javascript:aler t(document.getE lementsByName(" int")[0].onclick=functi on()
{ this.blur(); })
and
javascript:aler t(document.getE lementsByName(" int")[1].onclick=functi on()
{ this.blur(); })

However, this way users (you) will have to tab-navigate back to the
radio button and can only do one change with the up/down keys.

So you might want to consider the alternative of providing Left/Right
buttons for navigation that gain focus after a selection, applying the
focus() method on the respective element object. The cursor keys can
still be used to trigger either button, so no functionality would be
lost or duplicated.

But please, stop abusing tables and start using forms properly; there
is the `fieldset' element which you can also use for handling the
bubbling `click' event. Valid markup would be an advantage, too.

<URL:http://validator.w3.or g/>

And, last but not least, you might want to consider using an existing
sender address as you will receive no more help from me otherwise, not
considering that you are already running the risk of losing your account
anyway.

<URL:http://www.interhack.n et/pubs/munging-harmful/>
<URL:http://www.cw.com/legal/acceptable_use_ policy.html>
HTH

PointedEars

[Randy Webb]

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn said the following on 12/20/2005 7:24 PM:

Stuart wrote:
<snip>
And, last but not least, you might want to consider using an existing
sender address as you will receive no more help from me otherwise, not
considering that you are already running the risk of losing your account
anyway.

Someday, you might actually wake up to Reality and realize that your
empty threats at losing an account are as worthless as trying to pole
vault over the moon.

<snipped useless URL's>

--
Randy
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[Stuart]

"Stuart" <ff**@hhhde.khr > wrote in message

Fitted this in and its all working how I want it to, many thanks....
Definatly being lazy now, How do I assign the up and down arrow keys to
scroll through the "grp" radio buttons.

messed about, and got it to work in a fashion.

Have I went about disabling the scroll down with the down key in the correct
way! I got confused with this, its working (IE5) but not too sure how!

the image changes all work on the cursor keys!
remember this is only intended for my use, so I havnt tried for browser
compatability!

[Stuart]

"Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" <Po*********@we b.de>

And, last but not least, you might want to consider using an existing
sender address as you will receive no more help from me otherwise
But you have not provided any help !!!!!

take a look at the posts by robG & web.dev, that is help, your post in
contrast are irritating pedantic drivel!

, not
considering that you are already running the risk of losing your account
anyway.

yawn

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Stuart wrote:

"Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" <Po*********@we b.de>

And, last but not least, you might want to consider using an existing
sender address as you will receive no more help from me otherwise

But you have not provided any help !!!!!

If you just learned to read and understand ...
PointedEars
--
"And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of
someone who wears his underpants on his head."
-- Terry Pratchett in "Maskerade"

[Randy Webb]

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn said the following on 12/22/2005 8:52 AM:

Stuart wrote:

"Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" <Po*********@we b.de>

And, last but not least, you might want to consider using an existing
sender address as you will receive no more help from me otherwise

But you have not provided any help !!!!!

If you just learned to read and understand ...

And if we could only get YOU to read and understand.....

--
Randy
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