how do you tell when a form element has focus?????

[villan]

I have an ASP with a form containing 10 buttons, in a "keypress" function i need to know which button currently has focus, I've tried the following - but they don't work:

if (document.form1.button1.focus() == true)

and

if (document.form1.button1.focus())

how do i confirm which item has currenly got focus?

 

[baad]

hie
why do u want 2 know that? isnt it much simplier 2 use button names & onclick handlers? regards, vic

 

[villan]

I am designing an intranet site for one of my customers & i want to write some code that acts as follows:

when the user presses the "up" arrow, the focus moves to the button above & vice versa on "down" arrow.

I decided that if i could identify which button had focus at the time the up arrow was pressed (in the keydown function) i could set the focus on the previous element (button).

The resulting effect is that of:
pressing the down key instead of the TAB key
pressing the up key instead of the SHIFT & TAB keys.

Overall i want the site to look & act like an in-house application rather than a web site, so they can use the keyboard to navigate.

 

[removeme]

I think your best option would be to use the onFocus event handler to set a variable based on the current position.

<INPUT TYPE=&quot;button&quot; VALUE=&quot;Move Next&quot; onFocus=setPos(1)>

and then have a variable defined globally to hold the position.

<SCRIPT>
var currPos;

function setPos(sp){currPos = sp;}
</SCRIPT>
then if you use an array to hold the names of the buttons you can set the focus in your keypress event handler.

Hope this helps
RnK