focus listener on non-form elements in Safari/Chrome

[Gregor Kofler]

Setting the tabIndex property an element makes it focusable and attached
key listeners respond. Or so it seems...

This procedure works in - from what I've tested - IE6+, FF, Opera.
However, Safari and Chrome (and perhaps others) fail to respond,
obviously myElement.focus() can be called, but shows no further effect.

One possibility might be a listener attached to the document, which then
redirects the event to the "focused" element - not really elegant.

Did I overlook something, or does the tabIndex/focus trick simply not
work in Safari/Chrome?

Gregor

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Gregor Kofler wrote:

Setting the tabIndex property an element makes it focusable and attached
key listeners respond. Or so it seems...

This procedure works in - from what I've tested - IE6+, FF, Opera.
However, Safari and Chrome (and perhaps others) fail to respond,
obviously myElement.focus() can be called, but shows no further effect.

What is `myElement'? Not every element object has a focus() method to begin
with.

One possibility might be a listener attached to the document, which then
redirects the event to the "focused" element - not really elegant.

ACK.

Did I overlook something, or does the tabIndex/focus trick simply not
work in Safari/Chrome?

Dunno. Post your test case. (I guess you saw that coming ;-))
PointedEars
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var bugRiddenCrashPronePieceOfJunk = (
navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 5') != -1
&& navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac') != -1
) // Plone, register_function.js:16