Wizzud Thank you *very* much. Your solution works fine. Paul
On 8 Jun, 08:47, Wizzud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try adding... > > $(':text').bind('focus', function(){ > hasFocus = $(this); > }); > > On Jun 5, 7:43 pm, paulj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wizzud, thank you for your help. > > > Your code worked perfectly if the user had entered the text box by > > *clicking* on it. > > But, if the user has *tabbed* to the text box (and then clicks on > > another element) the focus is returned to the text box that was last > > *clicked* on. > > This can be seen in my example HTML. > > > Thank you (or others) for any fine-tuning on this. > > > Paul > > > On 5 Jun, 09:54, Wizzud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Any good for you ... ? > > > > $(document).ready(function(){ > > > var hasFocus = $(':text:first').focus(); > > > $(document).bind('click', function(event){ > > > var ev = $(event.target); > > > if(ev != hasFocus){ > > > if (ev.is(':text')){ > > > hasFocus = ev; > > > } > > > hasFocus.focus(); > > > } > > > }); > > > > }); > > > > On Jun 5, 2:30 am, paulj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > When a text box has the focus, I would like it to keep the focus even > > > > when another element type (not another text box) is clicked. eg after > > > > clicking this other element type, the user can press a key(s) and the > > > > text box will accept this key input without the user having to click > > > > back into the text box. > > > > Hope this makes sense. > > > > > Karl gave me some info. the other day and I was pretty sure I would be > > > > able to fine-tune it for my app. but the best I could come up with > > > > is : > > > > > $(document).ready(function() > > > > { > > > > $(':text').blur(function(event) > > > > { > > > > if (!$(event.target).is(':text')) > > > > { $(this).focus() } > > > > }); > > > > > }); > > > > > Thanks for any help > > > > Paul > > > > > Here is the full code : > > > > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/ > > > > TR/html4/strict.dtd"> > > > > <html> > > > > > <head> > > > > > <title></title> > > > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > > > > charset=ISO-8859-1"> > > > > > <style type="text/css"> > > > > input { width : 700px ; } > > > > > </style> > > > > > <script type = "text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script> > > > > <script type = "text/javascript"> > > > > > $(document).ready(function() > > > > { > > > > $(':text').blur(function(event) > > > > { > > > > if (!$(event.target).is(':text')) > > > > { $(this).focus() } > > > > }); > > > > > }); > > > > > </script> > > > > > </head> > > > > > <body> > > > > > <ul> > > > > <li>click here</li> > > > > <li>or click here</li> > > > > </ul> > > > > > <br> <br> > > > > > <form> > > > > > <input type='text' class='test' value='these text boxes should retain > > > > the focus when another element type is clicked'> <br><br> > > > > <input type='text' value='these text boxes should retain the focus > > > > when another element type is clicked'> <br><br> > > > > <input type='text' value='these text boxes should retain the focus > > > > when another element type is clicked' id='focusHere'> <br> > > > > > </form> > > > > > </body> > > > > > </html>