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in Developing jQuery UI • 13 years ago

I want to focus on $("#test") after dialog('open'), example HTML as:

<div id="dialog">
<input type='text' id=''test"/>
</div>

$("#test") can't get focus on my IE8.
I have tried firefox, opera, chrome, and all of them work well as expected.
But only on IE8, I need to add a extra hidden input to focus the first input...

<div id="dialog">
<input type='text' id=''test"/>
<input type='hidden'/>
</div>

Both 1.7.2 and 1.8rc1 have the same problem

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dgtaylor22

Re: IE8 open dialog focus problem

13 years ago

I think the first input is supposed to automatically have focus.

For some reason in IE8 it isn't working for recent jquery and jquery ui releases. In FF, it worked in 1.3.2, but when 1.4.0 was released it went away. Also doesn't work in jQuery 1.4.1 or jQuery nightly build.

john.snyd..

Re: IE8 open dialog focus problem

13 years ago

One thing I noticed in the UI dialog focus setting code is that it doesn't wrap the initial focus call in setTimeout. Other calls to focus are wrapped. Calling focus from a timer is often recommended for IE.
This is one of the changes I made and described in this topic:
http://forum.jquery.com/topic/ie-7-and-dialog-tab-focus-handling