How to set focus to a div?

[Amir Michail]

Hi,

Under Firefox, you can't scroll using the keyboard on this links page
unless you click on the div first:

http://numbrosia.com/?cmd=links

Is there a way to automatically set focus to a div?

Amir

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Under Firefox, you can't scroll using the keyboard on this links page
unless you click on the div first:

It's a known bug, but I can't find a bug ID.

http://numbrosia.com/?cmd=links

Is there a way to automatically set focus to a div?

No, but you can focus the first link in the `div' element. If that is the
first link in the document, it is easy:

document.links[0].focus();

If not, you will have to work with getElementsByTagName() or XPath.

From the usability perspective, I would consider that OK as long as it
degrades gracefully and does not break keyboard navigation. However, it
would have you include potentially obsolete code as I hope the bug will be
fixed in Firefox 3.


PointedEars