Re: XForms: Philosophy of input fields and browser

Steve Lamont (spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu)
Wed, 7 Apr 99 07:49:22 PDT

# To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> Tabbing does not bring focus to a browser, that may be convenient:
> use left/right arrows to move withing input field and up/down arrows to
> change the current line without leaving the input field. However in
> order to do this, the browser has to be selected with a mouse. Is there
> a way to avoid using mouse (through a shortcut, fl_set_focus, etc) ?
> This is really annoying.

I'm not clear on what you're trying to do here. Can you explain what
you mean by "bring focus to a browser?" What do you ultimately want
to do? Select items? Change items? Scroll up or down?

spl

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