Auto select text

[FancyPrairie]

When the user enters a field (input box or textarea) I want the text to automatically be selected. I know that it can be done via the onfocus event of the control (i.e. document.all(window.event.srcElement.uniqueid).select). However, I don't want to have to add onfocus=... to the definition of every input box. Is there a document event or something that gets fired each time a element receives focus?

I've tried using the onfocus event of the document (document_onfocus), but that never seems to fire off. I've also tried the onfocusin event of the document. Although that fires each time a field receives focus, the fields are not selected. For example, the following code does not work in the onfocusin event.

sub document_onfocusin()
	document.all(window.event.srcElement.uniqueid).select
end sub

 

[Foamcow]

Use a javascript function to grab all the input elements and apply a behaviour to them with a simple Javascript function.

You'll get a better answer in the Javascript Forum (Forum216) but something like this might work

function prepInputs(){
    inputs = document.getElementByTagName('INPUT');

    for(i=0;i<inputs.length;i++){
        inputs[i].onfocus = function(){
           //do the thing that selects the content here
        }
    }
}


window.onload=prepInputs();

*no guarantees it will work, but that's the general idea

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[FancyPrairie]

If I can get your concept to work, it would open the door to a lot of things for me. But, I get the error "Object doesn't support this method or property" on this line:

inputs = document.getElementByTagName('INPUT');

 

[Foamcow]

I'll need to look it up but I think I should have said

inputs = document.GetElementsByTagName('INPUT');

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[FancyPrairie]

You're right about the name, but I still can't seem to get it to work.

I tried this:
inputs.onfocus = function(){this.select}

and this:
inputs.onfocus = function(){document.all(window.event.srcElement.uniqueid).select }

and this:
inputs.onfocus = function(){ATest();}

Any ideas?

 

[Foamcow]

This is really a Javascript thing so should be discussed in the JS forum (Forum216)

But as a last post.... it works perfectly (in FF, not tried IE, but it should be fine) like this

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
	function prepInputs(){
		var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('INPUT');

		for(i=0;i<inputs.length;i++){
			inputs[i].onfocus = function(){
				this.select();
			}
		}
	}

	window.onload=prepInputs;
</script>

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[Foamcow]

Actually, I'm wrong. It doesn't work perfectly! Almost but not quite

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