How Do I Set focus on an inputText field after an onkeyup event?

[jabailo]

<h:inputText id="cnFilter" value="#{ADAMDataModel.cn_FilterValue}" >

                                     <a4j:support event="onkeyup" reRender="adamUsers,footer" />

           

                                     </h:inputText>

I am using an inputText box as a way to specify a filter for a dataTable.

The problem is, after each onkeyup event, the focus is blurred.

So as I type each letter in the inputText box, I have to put the mouse back on the inputText field.

How do I return focus to the inputText box after each onkeyup event?

[liuliu]

hi

do you try focus attribute on a4j:support? and think about requestdelay too.

liu

[jabailo]

When I set the focus, it highlights the whole entry in inputText.

Is there a way to have it set focus, but put the cursor at the end of the entered text?

[liuliu]

hi,

I did a test, I do not have your problem,do you rerender you inputtext too? could you show your code?

liu

[dominic89]

Hi, I have the same Problem, here ist my code:

<s:decorate id="test" template="/layout/edit.xhtml">

                        <h:inputText id="searchAuthor" value="#{hoerbuchDBHome.searchString}">

                            <a:support event="onkeyup" reRender="searchAuthor,authorShuttle" ajaxSingle="true" requestDelay="250" />

                        </h:inputText>

                        <ui:define name="label">Authors</ui:define>

                        <rich:listShuttle id="authorShuttle"

                            sourceValue="#{hoerbuchDBHome.availableAuthorList}"

                            var="_itemsA" targetValue="#{hoerbuchDBHome.selectedAuthorList}"

                            fastOrderControlsVisible="false">

                            <rich:column>

                                <h:outputText value="#{_itemsA.name}" />

                            </rich:column>

                            <s:convertEntity />

                        </rich:listShuttle>

                    </s:decorate>

I have to redender the textfield to get the input in my bean.

Is there a solution to fix this ?

[ilya_shaikovsky]

you could use focus attribute of support as suggested. But yep it has a problem with setting text selected after focused. so as a workaround you could use http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/richfaces/filteringFeature.jsf?tab=ex-usage&cid=223489 instead. (see source and setCarretToEnd js usage.)

[jabailo]

I used a requestDelay of 1000

<h:inputText id="acctnumFilter"

   value="#{ADAMDataModel.acctnum_FilterValue}" >

   <a4j:support

    event="onkeyup"

     focus="acctnumFilter"

    reRender="adamUsers"

    requestDelay="1000"/>

</h:inputText>

Where I adamUsers is the rich:dataTable

And it worked fine

[dominic89]

Hey I am sorry but for the next month I am in an other Department. So I could try your solution not now. But I give you feedback if I could try it.

The solution from Ilya looks fine and I would try it first. Because with the focus element the whole text in textfield is choosen and that's not the way I need.