You could hide your input and just show right after the click of the link that will slide the panel. The user wont even notice that it was hidden.
http://mootools.net/shell/kKQjn/1/ -- Fábio Miranda Costa Solucione Sistemas Engenheiro de interfaces On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Roman Land <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I put up this little example - > http://mootools.net/shell/kKQjn/ > > The issue is that when I click on the orange surface and then press the > "tab" key, the input field in the blue surface will come into view. > This behavior is undesired, what is the best practice going about it? > > I have several options: > 1. turn input fields into "input" look alike (until its clicked) > 2. catch "tab" key and stop it.. (somewhat limiting the user) > 3. listen to position changes and implement smart input field detection > mechanism and set the panel back in its original position (for this case) > > My goal is to control when the other panel is seen and disable this "ugly" > jump behavior. > > All advice is welcome! > > Thanks > Roman > > -- > --- > "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." > > - Albert Einstein > >
