T.J. & Alex, thanks for your suggestion!
On Jul 20, 5:21 pm, "Alex McAuley" <webmas...@thecarmarketplace.com>
wrote:
> Some people just create an array at page load and push history to the array
> (similar to TJ's explination) ... it seems the cleanest way to do it .. you
> could also update a hidden element with the id of the element if you wanted
> ... using an array allows you to access all hostory on that page of clicked
> input elements though! ... I believe its how google do it in thier analytics
> package to work out page clicks!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "T.J. Crowder" <t...@crowdersoftware.com>
> To: "Prototype & script.aculo.us" <prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 11:17 AM
> Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Re: Finding the previous element which was clicked
>
> Hi,
>
> I'll be interested to see the answers to this question, I'm sure
> there's a better way than the way I've done it previously.
>
> I needed to do something along those lines, keep track of which text
> box the user was in before they clicked a button. I ended up keeping
> track of the most recent text box in the form to get focus. I wasn't
> using Prototype, but in Prototype it would look something like this:
>
> // At some appropriate scope
> var lastFocussed;
>
> // In an init function, such as when DOM ready, or when you've
> rendered the form
> $('myform').
> select('input[type=text], input[type=password], textarea,
> select').
> invoke('observe', 'focus', function() {
> lastFocussed = this;
> });
>
> That will track which text, password, textarea, or select box last had
> focus. Note that it doesn't track radio buttons or checkboxes; you
> may want to do that, just add to the list of things being tracked in
> the selector.
>
> HTH,
> --
> T.J. Crowder
> tj / crowder software / com
> Independent Software Engineer, consulting services available
>
> On Jul 20, 10:42 am, Tharapon Menkham <thara...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sorry, the last selected element.
> > I clicked textbox in form and click the link or button, so I want to
> > know the textbox I've selected.
>
> > Thank you,
> > Tharapon
>
> > On Jul 20, 4:39 pm, "T.J. Crowder" <t...@crowdersoftware.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
>
> > > What do you mean by previous? Previous in the DOM, previous in
> > > time, ...? The more thorough you are in the info you provide, the
> > > more people will be able to help.
> > > --
> > > T.J. Crowder
> > > tj / crowder software / com
> > > Independent Software Engineer, consulting services available
>
> > > On Jul 20, 10:30 am, Tharapon Menkham <thara...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Does any know how to find the previous element which was clicked?
>
> > > > Thank you so much,
> > > > Tharapon
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