On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:13 AM, fricke <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> thanks for the tip;


Sure thing.


>
> it's way nicer than what I did: give the element an ID and then use
> this one for the focus


But if you've already given the element an id, it used that one.


>
>
> thanks
> markus
>
> On Aug 10, 12:15 am, David Pollak <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:19 AM, fricke <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> >
> > > currently I have the following simple problem: I want to set the focus
> > > to a specific field,
> > > using
> > > <script type="text/javascript">
> > >  document.myform.myfield.focus();
> > > </script>
> >
> > > The Scenario: a simple bind("user", form, "name" -> SHtml.text(x, x =
> > > _) )
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > import net.liftweb.http.js.JsCmds._
> >
> > Then:
> >
> > bind("user", form, "name" -> FocusOnLoad(SHtml.text(x, x =_) ))
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > with
> > >      <lift:UserLogin.login form="POST">
> > >        User Name: <user:name/>
> > >      </lift:UserLogin.login>
> >
> > > Here I come into trouble since
> > > (i) I cannot tell lift what the name of the form is (I tried
> > > <lift:UserLogin.login form="POST" name="myform">,
> > > but this didn't work (I alternatively tried the namespaces lift: and
> > > the one used in the binding)
> > > (ii) additionally, I couldn't retrieve (or alternatively define) the
> > > name of the generated ID - the one used in the input field "name" (I
> > > tried to overwrite it in the HTML - via user:name="myfield" - but this
> > > wasn't reflected in the backend, so the value never arrived there
> > > -----   I also tried to add attributes in the call of the bind method
> > > => same behaviour).
> >
> > > In the "getting started" it's mentioned that you can overwrite the
> > > generated form names etc - but I couldnt find a way to do so. I would
> > > even be happier with a way to retrieve the internal name of a
> > > SFuncHolder (ot keep these nice random values)
> >
> > > ah btw. I'm using the latest snapshot
> >
> > > thanks and regards
> > > Markus
> >
> > --
> > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net
> > Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890
> > Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp
> > Git some:http://github.com/dpp
>
> >
>


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