self.focus() not working in Opera?

**Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn** · Jul 23 '05, 02:09 PM

Re: self.focus() not working in Opera?

WH <kerry@whitehou se.gov> wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You really want to refrain from spoiling namespaces
and from using a faked From/Reply-To address, see

<http://na.edit.client. yahoo.com/rogers/show_static?.fo rm=eua>
<http://www.hispeed.rog ers.com/yahoo/info/eua.jsp>
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> I put this line in HTML
> <body bgcolor="#FFFFF F" onLoad="focus() ">[/color]

Do not use the "bgcolor" attribute without the "text", "link", "alink" and
"vlink" attributes, and, even better, use CSS instead of deprecated format
attributes.
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> Both Mozzila[/color]

What?
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> and IE can do self.focus().[/color]

But you cannot be sure that you call self.focus() here.
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> However Opera still does not take the focus().[/color]

Does the JavaScript Console show error messages?

Without an object reference in an intrinsic event handler attribute value,
the scope chain is followed, so it could be that Opera interprets `focus'
as `document.focus ', not `window.focus' == `self.focus'. That's also why
it is bad to write only `open(...)' within an event handler attribute value
as both the object referenced by `window' and the object referenced by
`document' have an open() method according to DOM Level 0 (for `window')
and DOM Level 0+ (for `document').

It could as well be that the DOM of the Opera version(s) you have been
testing with does not support Window.focus(). This method is part of
the proprietary DOM Level 0, it can be supported by a standards compliant
UA but does not need not to.

But why would someone want to focus the window containing the currently
loaded document, even if that worked?

PointedEars
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self.focus() not working in Opera?

self.focus() not working in Opera?

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