Set Focus in IE Form Field

[smcneese]

I am trying to write a simple script that will load a web page and set the value in a form. I have been able to do this using the _IEFormElementSetValue. The problem is that this form uses javascript to perform some needed validating when you tab out of this form field. The Set value function I used does not actually set focus to the field so sending a {tab} does nothing. How can I set focus to a form object I have?

Thank you,

Steve

[DaleHohm]

Look at _IEAction

Dale

[smcneese]

Look at _IEAction

Dale

I tried that but could not get it to work. I did _IEAction($o_field, "focus")

[DaleHohm]

Then it may not be the focus event that is important to the Javascript. You'll need to do some trial and error or get into the script to see what event is triggering the validation.

Note that you may need to use the .fireEvent method of the object to cause the necessary event to be fired.

dale

[smcneese]

Then it may not be the focus event that is important to the Javascript. You'll need to do some trial and error or get into the script to see what event is triggering the validation.

Note that you may need to use the .fireEvent method of the object to cause the necessary event to be fired.

dale

It is the Tab event out of the field. In order to fire that event in IE, the fields has to have focus. The only thing I have been able to get to work is to send a mouseclick to a specific point on the field. And then send a tab. It does not always work because I have a banner at the top that changes and pushes the form up and down.

[DaleHohm]

There is no such thing as a "tab event".

_IEFormElementSetValue fires two events for you like this:

$o_object.fireEvent("onchange")

$o_object.fireEvent("onclick")

You might also need onfocus, onfocusin, onfocusout -- it all depends on what the script is looking for.

See the links in my sig for MSDN docs on events.

Dale