Forum: Rails Spinoffs (closed, excessive spam) onblur= ; focus()

I recently posted a problem with re-focusing the cursor to a field
that had an 'onblur' event. The browser is FF3

I have found the following link that identifies the problem:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53579

Does prototype.js have a work-around or does anyone know a work-
around?

Frank

few1938 wrote:
> 
Try putting the focus() inside of a window.setTimeout.  So like this:

input.observe('blur', function() {
  window.setTimeout(this.focus);
});

I didn't test it but I've done things similar to get around the issue.

Watch out for binding/this issues if you're using this example - this 
isn't
bound inside the event handler:

input.observe('blur', function() {
       window.setTimeout(function() { Element.focus(input); });
});

-Fred

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Trevan Richins <developer@ckiweb.com> 
wrote:

> Try putting the focus() inside of a window.setTimeout.  So like this:
>
> input.observe('blur', function() {
>        window.setTimeout(this.focus);
> });
>
> I didn't test it but I've done things similar to get around the issue.


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The timeout issue has been discussed in the link.

Frank