Hi, Try to read the cursor position in #prependJavaScript(), store it temporarily somewhere, and set the position again in #appendJavaScript(). See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2897155/get-cursor-position-in-characters-within-a-text-input-field http://stackoverflow.com/questions/512528/set-cursor-position-in-html-textbox and many more in the web.
Martin Grigorov Wicket Training and Consulting https://twitter.com/mtgrigorov On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 6:39 PM, ChambreNoire <a...@tentelemed.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if there's a way around the following problem - at least a > slightly more elegant one than I came up with! > > When one adds an AjaxFormUpdatingBehavior("onkeyup") to a TextField, if > during the update the source TextField is added to the AjaxRequestTarget > the > resulting behaviour is a TextField which periodically resets it's > cursor/caret position to zero (depending on the Behavior's throttle > settings). This is obviously problematic during typing. > > In my particular case, the TextField in question is within a container > alongside the label, suffix and a bunch of status indicators (a super-field > of sorts). These all react to changes in the textfield content. When I'm > updating from outside it's not a problem but when the update comes from > within as a result of an onKeyUp update, I add the container to the > AjaxRequestTarget in order to get all the sub-components updated and thus > end up with the aforementioned cursor issue. > > I have worked around this by performing partial updates in this specific > case (all the siblings minus the offending textfield) and appending some > JQuery to the AjaxRequestTarget in order to update the container css class > but it's hardly ideal... > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > > CN > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-wicket.1842946.n4.nabble.com/TextField-cursor-reset-mid-editing-tp4668582.html > Sent from the Users forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > >
