Hi Ryan, thanks for your reply.
I have figured out my problem. It was because I was using a wrong
event:
Event.observe(dateTextField, 'change', function(event){
...
.
'change' apparently is not a valid event. Changing it to 'blur' does
what I want.
Thanks again!
WiB.
On Jun 6, 12:13 am, "Ryan Gahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This first thing to do would be some simple tracing. Place an alert within
> your observe method to make sure that event is even firing as you think it
> is.
>
> Also, you don't even need to do the Event.element stuff here, as you already
> have the reference to the element (focusableField), right?...
>
> $('input1').activate();
> $$('.focusable').each(function(focusableField){
> Event.observe(focusableField, 'change', function(event){
> alert("change is firing correctly");
> focusableField.activate();
> });
> });
>
> On 6/5/07, WiB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > I'm trying to understand why the following code doesnt work...
>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > <html>
> > <head>
> > <title>blabla</title>
> > <script type="text/javascript" src="prototype.js"></script>
> > </head>
> > <body>
> > <form action="bllalba">
> > <table>
> > <tr>
> > <td>Input1</td>
> > <td><input id="input1" type="text" name="bla1" /></td>
> > <td>Input2</td>
> > <td><input id="input2" class="focusable" type="text"
> > name="bla2" /></
> > td>
> > </tr>
>
> > </table>
>
> > <script type="text/javascript">
> > $('input1').activate();
> > $$('.focusable').each(function(focusableField){
> > Event.observe(focusableField, 'change', function(event){
> > var elt=Event.element(event);
> > //elt.activate();
> > $(elt.id).activate();
> > });
> > });
>
> > </script>
>
> > </form>
> > </body>
> > </html>
>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > Basically, I have two textfields here. On changing the value of
> > textfield 2, there will be a validation performed (not shown on code
> > above, for simplicity).
> > When this validation failed, the same textfield should be selected
> > (highlighted, and typing anything should replace the content of that
> > textfield). According to the documentation, I can simply
> > call activate(). But it didnt work for me in the code above (it works
> > fine for 'input1', but not the one inside the
> > Event.observe()).
>
> > Could anyone pinpoint to me where I had done wrong? I suspect it has
> > something to do with my usage of Event.element() method.
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > Alex.
>
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