I second the request for a good understanding of what the JQuery object is.
Daniel McBrearty wrote:
>
> ok, I got it. To access the element I need to access $('#id')[0]
>
> What confused me here is that I wasn't really clear what the "jquery
> object" actually is. I have looked through the various intro and
> tutorial material a few times, and managed to get the library to do
> some useful things, but I missed this.
>
> Is there anywhere where this is explained?
>
> thanks
>
> Daniel
>
> On 1/15/07, Daniel McBrearty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> sorry ... not the smartest question. of course, one returns the
>> element, one returns the jquery object.
>>
>> What I needed was $('#id').attr( { autocomplete : "off" } );
>>
>> I still have a problem to set the focus though. There is no error shown
>> for
>>
>> $('#id').focus();
>>
>> but the focus is not set ...
>>
>>
>> On 1/15/07, Daniel McBrearty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > I'm changing some old js I had to use jQuery.
>> >
>> > I used to have a function like this (to select a certain text input on
>> > a form and automatically focus on it) ... :
>> >
>> > window.onload = function() {
>> > self.focus();
>> >
>> document.getElementById("userresponse").setAttribute("autocomplete","off");
>> > document.getElementById("userresponse").focus();
>> > }
>> >
>> > which worked fine ... then I replace it with this:
>> >
>> > $(function () {
>> > self.focus();
>> > $("#userresponse").setAttribute("autocomplete","off");
>> > $("#userresponse").focus();
>> > });
>> >
>> > which fails to select the text box. why not? I thought these were
>> > equivalent excpet the jQuery version loads sooner?
>> >
>> > thanks
>> >
>> > Daniel
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Daniel McBrearty
>> > email : danielmcbrearty at gmail.com
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>> > BTW : 0873928131
>> >
>>
>>
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>> Daniel McBrearty
>> email : danielmcbrearty at gmail.com
>> www.engoi.com : the multi - language vocab trainer
>> BTW : 0873928131
>>
>
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