AutoTab in a text field

jfrankman Jul 5, 2007 9:38 AM

Is there any way with a4j that you can move the focus to another text field once the first text field has been filled in? The classic example is a
phone number that is split up into three text fields. When the user has finished typing in the area code, I want the cursor to automatically jump to the phone number prefix. There are numerous examples of doing this with
JavaScript, but I could not find anything in a4j. Any thoughts would be
appreciated.

Thanks.

James.

1. Re: AutoTab in a text field

ilya_shaikovsky Jul 6, 2007 6:30 AM (in response to jfrankman)

The only question is - do you really need to perform an ajax submit in conversion/validation purposes or you just need change focus without any server activities. If the answer is only client focus changing - I can't see why do you need a4j instead of simple JS.

But if you really need to perform a request - you may use a4j:support pointed to onkeyup and after the request performed with success and the count of the symbols is that you need - you may use "focus" attribute to change the focus after request completed.
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2. Re: AutoTab in a text field

jfrankman Jul 6, 2007 9:31 AM (in response to jfrankman)

I decided to go with plain old javascript. I was hoping that there would be a component in a4j or richfaces that had this sort of thing built in. Thanks for your help.
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