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
>
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email : danielmcbrearty at gmail.com
www.engoi.com : the multi - language vocab trainer
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