Is there no way to only have one observer for the entire form? I was
trying to cut down on memory by not assigning an observer to every
element (it's a big form)
On May 21, 11:12 am, Walter Lee Davis <wa...@wdstudio.com> wrote:
> If you give your text field an ID, you can observe its focus directly.
> Or, if you don't add IDs, you can use a loop over all of the elements
> in the form (or only the inputs) with one or another of these:
>
> $('editForm').getElements().invoke('observe','focus',function(evt)
> { ...inside here, 'this' will be your element... });
> $('editForm').getInputs().invoke('observe','focus',function(evt)
> { ...same as above... });
>
> Walter
>
> On May 21, 2009, at 11:06 AM, louis w wrote:
>
>
>
> > Is it possible to create an event observer which will detect when a
> > field is focused?
>
> > I have tested this out by trying to assign it to the parent form
> > (figuring the event would bubble up) however nothing happens.
>
> > This is what I have:
>
> > <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
> > document.observe('dom:loaded', function() {
>
> > $('editForm').observe('focus', function(evnt){
> > console.log('FOCUS!');
> > });
>
> > });
> > </script>
>
> > <form method="post" name="editForm" id="editForm" action="">
> > <input type="text" name="foobar" />
> > </form>
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