[pmwiki-users] Automatically Change Focus to Textarea When Editing

Max Pfleger max6166 at hotmail.com
Wed Feb 6 21:03:43 CST 2008


Thanks very much for the help. Both methods worked.

Perhaps the focus=1 method might be a good candidate as an option in the config file? 


- Max


Petko Yotov wrote:
> On Thursday 07 February 2008, Hans wrote:
>   
>> Why is  (:input e_textarea focus=1:) not in the default EditForm?
>>     
>
> It shouldn't be unless there is a demonstrated necessity for it to be, for 
> many users. And here, there may be some inconveniences:
>
> 1. Browsers do not act the same way if the focussed textarea contains more 
> text and scrollbars appear. Some browsers place the cursor at the beginning, 
> others at the end, others scroll down and only the last 20 lines of the 
> edited text are immediately visible.
>
> 2. Some pmwikis have their previews before the edit form, like in MediaWiki. 
> If a form element is autofocussed, the whole page will scroll down to the 
> form thus hiding the preview.
>
> Thanks,
> Petko
>
>
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