Does RichFaces support "focusing" on elements?

[konstandinos]

Hi

I'd like to set focus on a particular commandButton.

eg: I have two commandButtons at the end of a form: "Back" (which goes to the previous section) and "Submit".

The user types in the form data and hits enter. At this point I want it to submit.

But because the "Back" button came first in the view tree, it has the default focus (or so it seems). So when my user presses enter, it goes back.

I want it so that when my user presses enter, it submits.

I don't even need to dynamically set focus on elements. All I need is to set the default focused button on a page for pressing enter.

If there is a way to set focus dynamically too then I'd still be interested to learn about it.

Thanks!

[viggo.navarsete]

what about using the tabindex attribute?

[konstandinos]

Thanks for replying viggo.

Tabindex won't do it unfortunately, since the user might have pressed tab a couple of times to go from one input field in the form to the next.

So assuming my user inputs a couple of fields, and then presses enter on the keyboard, I want to specify which commandButton must be actioned.

I see there is also a "focus" attribute. Perhaps I could use that in conjunction with the id attribute somehow?

[viggo.navarsete]

I'm really not sure of what the functionality behind "focus" attribute is, but try it, and if it works, please tell us here at the forum about it:)

[daniel.soneira]

see: http://www.jsftutorials.net/defaultActionTag.html