ok, I got it. To access the element I need to access $('#id')[0]
What confused me here is that I wasn't really clear what the "jquery
object" actually is. I have looked through the various intro and
tutorial material a few times, and managed to get the library to do
some useful things, but I missed this.
Is there anywhere where this is explained?
thanks
Daniel
On 1/15/07, Daniel McBrearty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> sorry ... not the smartest question. of course, one returns the
> element, one returns the jquery object.
>
> What I needed was $('#id').attr( { autocomplete : "off" } );
>
> I still have a problem to set the focus though. There is no error shown for
>
> $('#id').focus();
>
> but the focus is not set ...
>
>
> On 1/15/07, Daniel McBrearty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm changing some old js I had to use jQuery.
> >
> > I used to have a function like this (to select a certain text input on
> > a form and automatically focus on it) ... :
> >
> > window.onload = function() {
> > self.focus();
> >
> > document.getElementById("userresponse").setAttribute("autocomplete","off");
> > document.getElementById("userresponse").focus();
> > }
> >
> > which worked fine ... then I replace it with this:
> >
> > $(function () {
> > self.focus();
> > $("#userresponse").setAttribute("autocomplete","off");
> > $("#userresponse").focus();
> > });
> >
> > which fails to select the text box. why not? I thought these were
> > equivalent excpet the jQuery version loads sooner?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> > --
> > Daniel McBrearty
> > email : danielmcbrearty at gmail.com
> > www.engoi.com : the multi - language vocab trainer
> > BTW : 0873928131
> >
>
>
> --
> Daniel McBrearty
> email : danielmcbrearty at gmail.com
> www.engoi.com : the multi - language vocab trainer
> BTW : 0873928131
>
--
Daniel McBrearty
email : danielmcbrearty at gmail.com
www.engoi.com : the multi - language vocab trainer
BTW : 0873928131
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