On 11/17/06, Roberto Ortelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > A few weeks ago I've written a small plugin for that: > > $.fn.fieldFocus = function(id){ > document.getElementById(id).focus(); > } > > and you call it using: > $(document).fieldFocus("the_id_of_the_input_field_without_#");
It is great to write plugins that make your development (and hopefully others too) faster and easier. I would just like to point out a few things that could make your plugin a little more robust. First a plugin's 'this' points to the jQuery object. With that in mind you can simply write the above plugin like this: jQuery.fn.fieldFocus = function() { this.get(0).focus(); }; And if you wanted to be able to chain method together you would do it like this: jQuery.fn.fieldFocus = function() { this.get(0).focus(); return this; }; Or you could call focus on each of the elements in the jQuery object like this: jQuery.fn.fieldFocus = function() { return this.each(function() { if (this.focus) this.focus(); }); }; Inside of the each method the 'this' points to the actual DOM element and not the jQuery object. I check for focus first so as not to cause an error on elements that don't have the method. Hope that helps. -- Brandon Aaron _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/