Hello,
I'm running into an interesting issue and I wanted to verify it was a bug with Internet Explorer 7.
I have a field that has an javascript onBlur event. When you set focus to the text field, it launches a custom event handler to process the existing value in that text field. Well after the onBlur function has completed, the cursor looks like it's not there, almost as if it didn't set focus to the text field you were currently on. But in fact, if you use the directional arrows on your keyboard, you'll see the focus has indeed been set to the text box, the cursor was just hidden! Has anyone else encountered this? I've been debugging this issue for a couple of days now before I rule out it's a bug in IE 7.
Thanks in advance.
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Hello,
I'm running into an interesting issue and I wanted to verify it was a bug with Internet Explorer 7.
I have a field that has an javascript onBlur event. When you set focus to the text field, it launches a custom event handler to process the existing value in that text field. Well after the onBlur function has completed, the cursor looks like it's not there, almost as if it didn't set focus to the text field you were currently on. But in fact, if you use the directional arrows on your keyboard, you'll see the focus has indeed been set to the text box, the cursor was just hidden! Has anyone else encountered this? I've been debugging this issue for a couple of days now before I rule out it's a bug in IE 7.
Thanks in advance.
I've seen this happen a few times.Are you sure this only happens in IE because I'm sure I've seen this in Firefox as well.
It isn't a big problem is it?
In this particular case it's a big deal. If a user is completing a large form that has look-up pop-ups, each time the look-up window closes I'm setting focus back to the last field they were on via an onBlur. If the cursor isn't visible, the user doesn't know where they left off/which field the focus is set. This also occurs when they are tabbing through fields. When it gets to particular fields utilizing the onBlur event, it doesn't show the cursor. I can then tab to the next field and the cursor shows up fine. Very strange.
In this particular case it's a big deal. If a user is completing a large form that has look-up pop-ups, each time the look-up window closes I'm setting focus back to the last field they were on via an onBlur. If the cursor isn't visible, the user doesn't know where they left off/which field the focus is set. This also occurs when they are tabbing through fields. When it gets to particular fields utilizing the onBlur event, it doesn't show the cursor. I can then tab to the next field and the cursor shows up fine. Very strange.
I suppose it is a big deal then. Have you tried the old hack of setting the focus to some other component first then setting it to the required control.
P.S Have you confirmed that this behavior is for IE only?
I haven't been able to test in Firefox. Our product is IE only. I have taken a look at it using the Firefox IE add-on (which uses the same IE engine). So that's not saying a whole lot. I'll create a test page with the basic javascript and we'll see if I can reproduce it in Firefox.
Thanks.
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hi ...
i encountered the same problem in FF already ... to have the focused field marked as focused i decided to set its background-color too ... just to workaround the problem ... may be a setTimeout would help too when setting the focus ...
kind regards
Yeah I can reproduce in FireFox. Also, setting the timeout (setTimeout()) doesn't seem to work either. I put several setTimeout(s) in there to see if waiting on the cursor to reappear would do it; no dice.
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hi ...
could you please post the code that makes the problem in FF ... i think i would like to play with it ... may be we find a solution :)
kind regards
Did you ever find a solution for this?
I just posted an issue where I said the screen was frozen..couldn' t cursor anything...howe ver, after reading this post, I can tab, and the the screen functions fine...but not really user friendly. I would like to get this resolved and feel your issue is similar to mine.
Anyone please post if you have the answer. thank you.
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post some code to work with! so that we may reproduce the behaviour ... and search for a fix ...
kind regards
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