Thanks Jose, I never thought of that. I was trying to go straight
javascript not remembering that I have the opportunity to do more in the
controller when errors are returned.
I'll try it out tomorrow and report back.
-Jim
On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 5:41 PM Jose C <houdinihoun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Just got a minute... I use something like this to scroll to and highlight
> the first field in a long form (but not within a Collapse structure). Off
> the top of my head, you're submitting to web2py, so in the controller:
>
> if form.process().accepted:
> <all good>
> elif form.errors:
> focus_field = next(iter(form.errors.keys()))
>
> return dict(........., focus_field=focus_field)
>
>
> then, in the view:
>
> {{ if focus_field: }}
> <script>
> $(function() {
> $("[name='{{=focus_field}}']").focus();
> });
> </script>
> {{pass}}
>
> Could something like that work in your case? On field focus, does the
> collapse open automatically?
>
> HTH,
>
> Jose
>
>
>
>
>
> How about in your controller,
>
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