How do you detect which form input has focus using JavaScript or jQuery?
From within a function I want to be able to determine which form input has focus. I'd like to be able to do this in straight JavaScript and/or jQuery.
document.activeElement, it's been supported in IE for a long time and the latest versions of FF and chrome support it also. If nothing has focus, it returns the document.body object.
I am not sure if this is the most efficient way, but you could try:
var selectedInput = null;
$(function() {
$('input, textarea, select').focus(function() {
selectedInput = this;
}).blur(function(){
selectedInput = null;
});
});
If all you want to do is change the CSS for a particular form field when it gets focus, you could use the CSS ":focus" selector. For compatibility with IE6 which doesn't support this, you could use the IE7 library.
Otherwise, you could use the onfocus and onblur events.
something like:
<input type="text" onfocus="txtfocus=1" onblur="txtfocus=0" />
and then have something like this in your javascript
if (txtfocus==1)
{
//Whatever code you want to run
}
if (txtfocus==0)
{
//Something else here
}
But that would just be my way of doing it, and it might not be extremely practical if you have, say 10 inputs :)
I would do it this way: I used a function that would return a 1 if the ID of the element it was sent was one that would trigger my event, and all others would return a 0, and the "if" statement would then just fall-through and not do anything:
function getSender(field) {
switch (field.id) {
case "someID":
case "someOtherID":
return 1;
break;
default:
return 0;
}
}
function doSomething(elem) {
if (getSender(elem) == 1) {
// do your stuff
}
/* else {
// do something else
} */
}
HTML Markup:
<input id="someID" onfocus="doSomething(this)" />
<input id="someOtherID" onfocus="doSomething(this)" />
<input id="someOtherGodForsakenID" onfocus="doSomething(this)" />
The first two will do the event in doSomething, the last one won't (or will do the else clause if uncommented).
-Tom
Here's a solution for text/password/textarea (not sure if I forgot others that can get focus, but they could be easily added by modifying the if clauses... an improvement could be made on the design by putting the if's body in it's own function to determine suitable inputs that can get focus).
Assuming that you can rely on the user sporting a browser that is not pre-historic (http://www.caniuse.com/#feat=dataset):
<script>
//The selector to get the text/password/textarea input that has focus is: jQuery('[data-selected=true]')
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery('body').bind({'focusin': function(Event){
var Target = jQuery(Event.target);
if(Target.is(':text')||Target.is(':password')||Target.is('textarea'))
{
Target.attr('data-selected', 'true');
}
}, 'focusout': function(Event){
var Target = jQuery(Event.target);
if(Target.is(':text')||Target.is(':password')||Target.is('textarea'))
{
Target.attr('data-selected', 'false');
}
}});
});
</script>
For pre-historic browsers, you can use the uglier:
<script>
//The selector to get the text/password/textarea input that has focus is: jQuery('[name='+jQuery('body').data('Selected_input')+']')
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery('body').bind({'focusin': function(Event){
var Target = jQuery(Event.target);
if(Target.is(':text')||Target.is(':password')||target.is('textarea'))
{
jQuery('body').data('Selected_input', Target.attr('name'));
}
}, 'focusout': function(Event){
var Target = jQuery(Event.target);
if(Target.is(':text')||Target.is(':password')||target.is('textarea'))
{
jQuery('body').data('Selected_input', null);
}
}});
});
</script>
You only need one listener if you use event bubbling (and bind it to the document); one per form is reasonable, though:
var selectedInput = null;
$(function() {
$('form').on('focus', 'input, textarea, select', function() {
selectedInput = this;
}).on('blur', 'input, textarea, select', function() {
selectedInput = null;
});
});
(Maybe you should move the selectedInput variable to the form.)
You can use this
<input type="text" onfocus="myFunction()">
It triggers the function when the input is focused.
Try
window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0).startContainer
Related
I have a form and on click on an input, I'm adding classes to that input's wrapped div.
To do this, I've made use of blur and executing my function on click. However, on some cases (very rarely) it will work (and add the class). But majority of the time, it doesn't perform the click action (because the console.log("click") doesn't appear).
My thinking is that maybe the browser is conflicting between the blur and click. I have also tried changing click to focus, but still the same results.
Demo:
$(function() {
var input_field = $("form .input-wrapper input");
$("form .input-wrapper").addClass("noData");
function checkInputHasValue() {
$(input_field).on('blur', function(e) {
var value = $(this).val();
if (value) {
$(this).parent().closest(".input-wrapper").removeClass("hasData noData").addClass("hasData");
} else {
$(this).parent().closest(".input-wrapper").removeClass("hasData noData").addClass("noData");
}
});
}
$(input_field).click(function() {
checkInputHasValue();
console.log("click");
});
});
i've done some modification in your code .
function checkInputHasValue(e) {
var value = $(e).val()
if (value) {
$(e).parent().closest(".input-wrapper").removeClass("hasData noData").addClass("hasData");
} else {
$(e).parent().closest(".input-wrapper").removeClass("hasData noData").addClass("noData");
}
}
$(document).on('blur',input_field, function(e) {
checkInputHasValue($(this));
});
$(document).on("click",input_field,function() {
checkInputHasValue($(this));
console.log("click");
});
In order to avoid conflits between events, you would separate the events and your value check. In your code, the blur event may occur multiple times.
The following code seems ok, as far as I can tell ^^
$(function() {
var input_field = $("form .input-wrapper input");
$("form .input-wrapper").addClass("noData");
function checkInputHasValue(el) {
let target = $(el).closest(".input-wrapper");
var value = $(el).val();
$(target).removeClass("hasData noData");
$(target).addClass(value.length == 0 ? "noData" : "hasData");
console.log("hasData ?", $(target).hasClass("hasData"));
}
$(input_field).on("click", function() {
console.log("click");
checkInputHasValue(this);
});
$(input_field).on("blur", function() {
checkInputHasValue(this);
});
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form>
<div class="input-wrapper">
<input>
</div>
</form>
The User should be able to change the Name and then confirm the change. I'm not able to archive it with this code as when I click confirm, it returns like before.
What am I missing?
Any better way to put this together (which I'm sure there's one) ?
Please check the demo where you can also see the changeElementTypefunction
http://jsfiddle.net/dLk6E/
js:
$('.replace').on('click', function () {
$("h2").changeElementType("textarea");
$('.replace').hide();
$('.confirm').show();
//Confermation of the change
$('.confirm').bind('click', function () {
$('.replace').show();
$('.confirm').hide();
$("textarea").changeElementType("h2");
});
if ($('textarea:visible')) {
$(document).keypress(function (e) {
if (e.which == 13) {
alert('You pressed enter!');
$("textarea").changeElementType("h2");
$('.replace').css('opacity', '1');
}
});
}
});
Here are your updated code and working fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/dLk6E/
(function($) {
$.fn.changeElementType = function(newType) {
var attrs = {};
$.each(this[0].attributes, function(idx, attr) {
attrs[attr.nodeName] = attr.nodeValue;
});
this.replaceWith(function() {
return $("<" + newType + "/>", attrs).append($(this).contents());
});
}
})(jQuery);
$('.replace').on('click', function (){
$("h2").changeElementType("textarea");
$('.replace').hide();
$('.confirm').show();
//Confermation of the change
$('.confirm').on('click', function(){
$('.replace').show();
$('.confirm').hide();
// you are missing this
$('.replaceble').html($("textarea").val());
$("textarea").changeElementType("h2");
});
if ($('textarea:visible')){
$(document).keypress(function(e) {
if(e.which == 13) {
alert('You pressed enter!');
$("textarea").changeElementType("h2");
$('.replace').css('opacity','1');
}
});
}
});
updated
jsfiddle.net/dLk6E/1
I think your code is right but you need to use the value you're entering when replacing it. So the confirmation binding would be something like this (fetching it, and then using it to update the textarea before "transforming" it into an h2 tag.
$('.confirm').bind('click', function(){
var valueEntered = $('textarea').val();
$('.replace').show();
$('.confirm').hide();
$("textarea").html(valueEntered).changeElementType("h2");
});
You could be using .on for this as well as of jQuery 1.7 is prefered to .bind.
Another thing I would suggest is whenever you struggle with something like this just put in google (or whatever...) exactly what you want, in this case "jquery get value of input" will get asw first result the jquery documentation
This way you won't forget it ;)
Update: Maybe a small detail but in the binding I use it would be more efficient to just hit $('textarea') once, so it would be something like this. Something that you may keep in mind (not really an issue here), better to store in a variable than hit the DOM several times.
$('.confirm').on('click', function(){
var $textarea = $('textarea');
$('.replace').show();
$('.confirm').hide();
$textarea.html($textarea.val()).changeElementType("h2");
});
jsfiddle
I need to get the newly focussed element (if any) while executing an onBlur handler.
How can I do this?
I can think of some awful solutions, but nothing which doesn't involve setTimeout.
Reference it with:
document.activeElement
Unfortunately the new element isn't focused as the blur event happens, so this will report body. So you are gonna have to hack it with flags and focus event, or use setTimeout.
$("input").blur(function() {
setTimeout(function() {
console.log(document.activeElement);
}, 1);
});
Works fine.
Without setTimeout, you can use this:
http://jsfiddle.net/RKtdm/
(function() {
var blurred = false,
testIs = $([document.body, document, document.documentElement]);
//Don't customize this, especially "focusIN" should NOT be changed to "focus"
$(document).on("focusin", function() {
if (blurred) {
var elem = document.activeElement;
blurred = false;
if (!$(elem).is(testIs)) {
doSomethingWith(elem); //If we reached here, then we have what you need.
}
}
});
//This is customizable to an extent, set your selectors up here and set blurred = true in the function
$("input").blur(function() {
blurred = true;
});
})();
//Your custom handler
function doSomethingWith(elem) {
console.log(elem);
}
Why not using focusout event? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/focusout
relatedTarget property will give you the element that is receiving the focus.
I want to simulate the Google Search effect that even with the search box not focused, the user can start typing and the input box will capture all keyboard strokes.
I have looked for an ontype event, but haven't found anything. I know that the event object in callbacks for events like click has keyboard information, but I don't think this is what I'm after.
This does the job:
$(document).on('keydown', function() {
$('input').focus();
});
HTML:
<input type="text" id="txtSearch" />
Javascript:
var googleLikeKeyCapture = {
inputField : null,
documentKeydown: function(event) {
var inputField = googleLikeKeyCapture.inputField;
if(event.target != inputField.get(0)) {
event.target = inputField.get(0);
inputField.focus();
}
},
init: function() {
googleLikeKeyCapture.inputField = $('#txtSearch');
$(document).bind('keydown', googleLikeKeyCapture.documentKeydown);
googleLikeKeyCapture.inputField
.focus(function() {
$(document).unbind('keydown');
})
.blur(function() {
$(document).bind('keydown', googleLikeKeyCapture.documentKeydown);
});
googleLikeKeyCapture.init = function() {};
}
};
$(googleLikeKeyCapture.init);
Also you can find jsFiddle example here
EDIT :
And now it's a jQuery plugin. :) If keydown occures in a textarea or input field it doesn't capture keys, anything else goes to designated input field. If your selector matches more than one element it only uses the first element.
Usage: $('#txtSearch').captureKeys();
The event you are after is onkeypress.
Try this jQuery Text Change Event plugin:
http://www.zurb.com/playground/jquery-text-change-custom-event
I tried to use focus for first input field on the form. but
it doesn't work. When I call attr("id") for that input it worked. When I call focus for the same input, I didn't see any
result. I also tried to use native Javascript. Does anyone know how to
fix that?
You are all misunderstanding the question. When Colorbox opens you can't focus an input field?
...unless you add your focus to the Colobox onComplete key e.g.
$('#mydiv a').colorbox({ onComplete:function(){ $('form input:first').focus(); }});
You could also bind the focus to an event hook:
$('#mydiv a').bind('cbox_complete', function(){
$('form input:first').focus();
});
That should be enough to get started.
use
$(document).ready(function() {
// focus on the first text input field in the first field on the page
$("input[type='text']:first", document.forms[0]).focus();
});
It may be happening that when your colorbox is opened its focus goes onto the highest element i.e. body of page. use document.activeElement to find that focus went to which element. Then find iframe or id of your colorbox and then set focus on it
Try the first selector,
$("form input:first").focus();
http://jsfiddle.net/erick/mMuFc/
I've just stumbled on this problem.
I think it's best to have a single $.colorbox opener like this:
function showActionForColorBox(
_url,
_forFocus
) {
$.colorbox(
{
scrolling: false,
href: _url,
onComplete: function () {
idColorboxAjaxIndect1.appendTo($('#cboxOverlay'));
idColorboxAjaxIndect2.appendTo($('#cboxOverlay'));
idColorboxAjaxIndect3.appendTo($('#cboxOverlay'));
idColorboxAjaxIndect4.appendTo($('#cboxOverlay'));
// --> Possible element's ID for focus
if (_forFocus) {
$('#' + _forFocus).focus();
}
return;
},
onCleanup: function () {
// TODO: ?
return;
},
onClosed: function () {
if (shouldReloadPageAfterColorBoxAction) {
// --> Should we reload whole page?
shouldReloadPageAfterColorBoxAction = false; // NOTE: To be sure: Reset.
window.location.reload(false);
}
else if (cbEBillsActionReloadPopup) {
// --> Should we reload colorbox
cbEBillsActionReloadPopup = false;
showActionForColorBox(_url);
}
else if (cbShouldLoadAnotherContentAfterClosed) {
// --> Should we reload colorbox with custom content?
cbShouldLoadAnotherContentAfterClosed = false;
$.colorbox({ html: setupContentForcbShouldLoadAnotherContentAfterClosed });
setupContentForcbShouldLoadAnotherContentAfterClosed = '';
}
return;
}
}
);
return;
}
You can also use
$.colorbox({
...,
trapFocus: false
});
to disable focus inside colorbox