onLoad="this.focus();"

dE|_ · Feb 1, 2008

A while ago I was given this syntax for repeated onClick popups to come to
the front of the screen;

<body onLoad="this.focus();">

Today I find it does not work in FireFox. What's going on please?

---dE|_---

Joost Diepenmaat · Feb 1, 2008

dE|_ said:
A while ago I was given this syntax for repeated onClick popups to come to
the front of the screen;

<body onLoad="this.focus();">

Today I find it does not work in FireFox. What's going on please?

You should use window.focus() - there is no document.focus() in the
Gecko DOM.

Note that firefox allows you to disable raising and lowering windows in
the enable javascript -> advanced... tab, and sensible users have that
option checked.

Joost.

dE|_ · Feb 1, 2008

You should use window.focus() - there is no document.focus() in the
Gecko DOM.
Thanks

Note that firefox allows you to disable raising and lowering windows in
the enable javascript -> advanced... tab, and sensible users have that
option checked.

It's not a big issue here but that is noted, along with everything else that
can be disabled from JavaScript as a whole, to a lack of speakers, to a
blind member of public.

---dE|_---

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