Damnit. You'd think that in 2ish hours of random hacking to figure out
what's going on prior to asking for help, I'd have seen that. Sigh.
Thanks!
-- Dash --
Colin Mollenhour wrote:
> I'm sure you'll be smacking your forehead against the desk on this one :)
> You are trying to observe focus of a div. Divs do not support focus. To
> observe
> the input element change line 4 of your pastie to:
> counter.down('input.counter').observe("focus", function() { alert("hi")
> });
> or something similar...
>
> Cheers,
> Colin
>
>
> David Dashifen Kees wrote:
> > Wow. Pastie rocks: http://pastie.caboo.se/47296
> >
> > So, you can see in that code on line #4 an attempt to force the counter to
> > observe focus events. Currently, it's just an anonymous call to the
> > alert("hi") function but it never fires. I left the CSS out of it, but
> > suffice it to say that the background positioning is used to control the
> > look
> > of the div.button elements so that they have an off, over, and pressed
> > states
> > like a button. Using them provides the basic functionality of a numeric
> > counting widget like you can find in various incarnations (e.g., flash,
> > python, etc.) but is lacking for web sites. Not sure if I really need the
> > code to work; it was just an exercise.
> >
> > So, the needs are this: (1) to determine why, in the code linked above,
> > the
> > focus action is never fired for the counter elements and (2) once the event
> > is
> > firing, change it from an alert event to simply blur the focused field.
> >
> > Thanks for taking a peak!
> >
> > -- Dash --
> >
> > Colin Mollenhour wrote:
> >> Will the readonly attribute not work?
> >> <input type="text" readonly />
> >> Or in JS, I think you can do element.readonly="readonly" but I'm not
> >> sure if that is the correct way offhand.
> >>
> >> I don't know why your focus event isn't working, post more code (use
> >> pastie for large quantities) or a minimalistic test page if necessary.
> >>
> >> Colin
> >>
> >> David Dashifen Kees wrote:
> >>
> >>> So, I want to blur an input field when it is focused. I can easily add
> >>> onfocus="this.blur()" to the html for the input field(s) that require
> >>> it, but I've been trying to wean myself off of inline function calls
> >>> little-by-little as I learn more about the prototype.js Event.observe()
> >>> and related behavior. But, I haven't been able to use Event.observe to
> >>> fire a function on a focus event. I've tried to do things like
> >>> Event.observe($("blur_me"), "focus", function() { alert("hi") }) and the
> >>> alert doesn't happen. Is there something I'm missing?
> >>>
> >>> -- Dave --
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
> >
>
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