set focus on event 1

[simon551]

Hi, Most of what I read about setting the focus of a field is on the load event. I'm trying to set the focus after a an event on the form. This event is firing (the other parts of the script work. But the .focus() doesn't seem to fire.

Any suggestions? Or is this just not an option?

window.onload=activateFxFunction;

//the following function does the work: creates the string to be placed into the label field and sets up the fields
	function setfields(){
	var currname=document.getElementById('curr').value;
	if (currname != "USD"){
			document.getElementById("foreignlbl").innerHTML = "Foreign Amount";
			document.getElementById("fxlbl").innerHTML = "Exchange Rate";

		document.getElementById("amtUS").type="text";
		document.getElementById("amtForeign").type="text";
		document.getElementById("fxRate").innerHTML= fxRate;
		document.getElementById("amtForeign").focus();
			}
	}
//this function calls the other on the changing of currency
function activateFxFunction(){
	document.getElementById("curr").onchange=setfields;
}

 

[cLFlaVA]

i'm guessing this works in some browsers, but not all? the thing is, a change is detected when a certain field loses focus, which could consequently mean another field is gaining focus. i've had problems properly setting focus cross-browser this way, and have attempted workarounds in the past.

you can get around this using a setTimeout method. Try something like this:

setTimeout('document.getElementById("amtForeign").focus()', 100);

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[simon551]

works beautifully! Thank you CL! btw, I'm testing in Firefox 2.0

-s