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  • George Hester
    #1

    Capture a keydown or keypress?

    When the address bar is highligted? That is nothing on the page is selected. The address bar is selected. Capture keydown or keypress? Any ideas using javascript? Thanks.

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    • rf
      #2
      Re: Capture a keydown or keypress?


      "George Hester" <hesterloli@hot mail.com> wrote in message
      news:Bz1Ib.1243 4$q55.4774@twis ter.nyroc.rr.co m...
      When the address bar is highligted? That is nothing on the page is
      selected. The address bar is selected. Capture keydown or keypress? Any
      ideas using javascript? Thanks.

      Can't be done.

      Cheers
      Richard.


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        • Steve
          #3
          Re: Capture a keydown or keypress?

          On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:06:25 GMT, George Hester typed:
          [color=blue]
          >When the address bar is highligted? That is nothing on the page is selected. The address bar is selected.
          > Capture keydown or keypress? Any ideas using javascript? Thanks.[/color]

          If the address bar is highlighted, windows focus will be on the browser,
          not the document so the browser will see the keypress, not the
          document. What you want to do just won't work



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            • George Hester
              #4
              Re: Capture a keydown or keypress?

              Thanks. That takes care of that. Using any other technology?

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              George Hester
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              "rf" <making.it.up@t he.time> wrote in message news:_o7Ib.6972 1$aT.20976@news-server.bigpond. net.au...[color=blue]
              >
              > "George Hester" <hesterloli@hot mail.com> wrote in message
              > news:Bz1Ib.1243 4$q55.4774@twis ter.nyroc.rr.co m...
              > When the address bar is highligted? That is nothing on the page is
              > selected. The address bar is selected. Capture keydown or keypress? Any
              > ideas using javascript? Thanks.
              >
              > Can't be done.
              >
              > Cheers
              > Richard.
              >
              >[/color]

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                • kaeli
                  #5
                  Re: Capture a keydown or keypress?

                  In article <eOeIb.20432$q5 5.3706@twister. nyroc.rr.com>,
                  hesterloli@hotm ail.com enlightened us with...[color=blue]
                  > Thanks. That takes care of that. Using any other technology?[/color]

                  I believe using IE6+ and a WSH it might be possible...
                  But that's just a guess. :)

                  Otherwise you'd have to use .net and a custom browser extenstion.

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                    • rf
                      #6
                      Re: Capture a keydown or keypress?


                      "George Hester" <hesterloli@hot mail.com> wrote in message
                      news:eOeIb.2043 2$q55.3706@twis ter.nyroc.rr.co m...
                      Thanks. That takes care of that. Using any other technology?

                      What precicely are you trying to do?

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                      George Hester
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                      "rf" <making.it.up@t he.time> wrote in message
                      news:_o7Ib.6972 1$aT.20976@news-server.bigpond. net.au...[color=blue]
                      >
                      > "George Hester" <hesterloli@hot mail.com> wrote in message
                      > news:Bz1Ib.1243 4$q55.4774@twis ter.nyroc.rr.co m...
                      > When the address bar is highligted? That is nothing on the page is
                      > selected. The address bar is selected. Capture keydown or keypress? Any
                      > ideas using javascript? Thanks.
                      >
                      > Can't be done.
                      >
                      > Cheers
                      > Richard.
                      >
                      >[/color]


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                        • George Hester
                          #7
                          Re: Capture a keydown or keypress?

                          Basically what I was trying to do I've given up. The idea was to determine what the tabIndex was upon tabbing through my controls on a form and hitting the address bar. I have 5 controls. 4 on the form and 1 on a link. So there are only 5 "elements" which get the tab. 0, 1, 2, 3 on the form and 4 is the link. I number them explicitly this way. But onkeydown over the 4th one, the link, sends control to the address bar. At that point I cannot capture onkeydown. onkeydown over the link is not captured (fired) when the key is the TAB and the place the cursor goes is the address bar.

                          The trouble is my tabIndex seems to act inconsistently when the address bar is included in the mix.

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                          George Hester
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                          "rf" <making.it.up@t he.time> wrote in message news:BSoIb.7090 0$aT.29739@news-server.bigpond. net.au...[color=blue]
                          >
                          > "George Hester" <hesterloli@hot mail.com> wrote in message
                          > news:eOeIb.2043 2$q55.3706@twis ter.nyroc.rr.co m...
                          > Thanks. That takes care of that. Using any other technology?
                          >
                          > What precicely are you trying to do?
                          >
                          > --
                          > George Hester
                          > _______________ _______________ ____
                          > "rf" <making.it.up@t he.time> wrote in message
                          > news:_o7Ib.6972 1$aT.20976@news-server.bigpond. net.au...[color=green]
                          > >
                          > > "George Hester" <hesterloli@hot mail.com> wrote in message
                          > > news:Bz1Ib.1243 4$q55.4774@twis ter.nyroc.rr.co m...
                          > > When the address bar is highligted? That is nothing on the page is
                          > > selected. The address bar is selected. Capture keydown or keypress? Any
                          > > ideas using javascript? Thanks.
                          > >
                          > > Can't be done.
                          > >
                          > > Cheers
                          > > Richard.
                          > >
                          > >[/color]
                          >
                          >[/color]

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                            • Grant Wagner
                              #8
                              Re: Capture a keydown or keypress?

                              <form>
                              <input type="text" name="one" tabindex="1">
                              <input type="text" name="two" tabindex="2">
                              <input type="text" name="three" tabindex="3">
                              <input type="text" name="four" tabindex="4" onblur="this.fo rm.elements['one'].focus();">
                              </form>

                              Doesn't help if the user hits SHIFT+TAB in the first form element however.

                              George Hester wrote:
                              [color=blue]
                              > Basically what I was trying to do I've given up. The idea was to determine what the tabIndex was upon tabbing through my controls on a form and hitting the address bar. I have 5 controls. 4 on the form and 1 on a link. So there are only 5 "elements" which get the tab. 0, 1, 2, 3 on the form and 4 is the link. I number them explicitly this way. But onkeydown over the 4th one, the link, sends control to the address bar. At that point I cannot capture onkeydown. onkeydown over the link is not captured (fired) when the key is the TAB and the place the cursor goes is the address bar.
                              >
                              > The trouble is my tabIndex seems to act inconsistently when the address bar is included in the mix.
                              >
                              > --
                              > George Hester
                              > _______________ _______________ ____
                              > "rf" <making.it.up@t he.time> wrote in message news:BSoIb.7090 0$aT.29739@news-server.bigpond. net.au...[color=green]
                              > >
                              > > "George Hester" <hesterloli@hot mail.com> wrote in message
                              > > news:eOeIb.2043 2$q55.3706@twis ter.nyroc.rr.co m...
                              > > Thanks. That takes care of that. Using any other technology?
                              > >
                              > > What precicely are you trying to do?
                              > >
                              > > --
                              > > George Hester
                              > > _______________ _______________ ____
                              > > "rf" <making.it.up@t he.time> wrote in message
                              > > news:_o7Ib.6972 1$aT.20976@news-server.bigpond. net.au...[color=darkred]
                              > > >
                              > > > "George Hester" <hesterloli@hot mail.com> wrote in message
                              > > > news:Bz1Ib.1243 4$q55.4774@twis ter.nyroc.rr.co m...
                              > > > When the address bar is highligted? That is nothing on the page is
                              > > > selected. The address bar is selected. Capture keydown or keypress? Any
                              > > > ideas using javascript? Thanks.
                              > > >
                              > > > Can't be done.
                              > > >
                              > > > Cheers
                              > > > Richard.[/color][/color][/color]

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                                • Evertjan.
                                  #9
                                  Re: Capture a keydown or keypress?

                                  Grant Wagner wrote on 02 jan 2004 in comp.lang.javas cript:
                                  [color=blue]
                                  > <form>
                                  > <input type="text" name="one" tabindex="1">
                                  > <input type="text" name="two" tabindex="2">
                                  > <input type="text" name="three" tabindex="3">
                                  > <input type="text" name="four" tabindex="4"
                                  > onblur="this.fo rm.elements['one'].focus();"> </form>
                                  >
                                  > Doesn't help if the user hits SHIFT+TAB in the first form element
                                  > however.[/color]

                                  You can use to "hidden" inputs that only act as tab and shift-tab catch.
                                  They cannot be visibility:hidd en or display:none, just style zero-sized.

                                  The tab sequence will be 234523452...

                                  The shift-tab sequence will be 5432543254....

                                  Try:

                                  <script>tabn=fa lse;</script>
                                  <form>
                                  <input style="width:0; height:0;" tabindex="1"
                                  onfocus="if(tab n){tabn=false;t his.form.elemen ts['four'].focus();}">
                                  <input type="text" name="one" tabindex="2" onkeydown="tabn =true">
                                  <input type="text" name="two" tabindex="3">
                                  <input type="text" name="three" tabindex="4">
                                  <input type="text" name="four" tabindex="5">
                                  <input style="width:0; height:0;" tabindex="6"
                                  onfocus="this.f orm.elements['one'].focus();">
                                  </form>

                                  IE6 tested.

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                                  Evertjan.
                                  The Netherlands.
                                  (Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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