setting focus on filtering select on page load

[gerhard presser]

hi, calling

dijit.byId("myFilteringSelect").focus();

inside a

dojo.addOnLoad()

doesn't focus the widget in ie8! I tried it with firefox 3/4, ie7 - it works.

deferring the call via window.setTimeout() seems to be a workaround for this problem.

working: ​http://pastehtml.com/view/1e1upel.html defect: ​http://pastehtml.com/view/1e22mt0.html

environment: Browser type: internet explorer Browser version: 8 OS and OS Version: windows 7

regards

gerhard

[Douglas Hays]

I'm not sure we promise that you can call focus() from addOnLoad. The browser is still processing (like scrolling the window to the previous spot on a page refresh) after addOnLoad is called. IE has always maintained that you should never change focus during another event handler.

[bill]

Does it work if you do it in a setTimeout?

dojo.ready(function(){
    setTimeout(function(){
       dijit.byId("myFilteringSelect").focus();
    });
}, 0);

[gerhard presser]

using setTimeout seems to solve the problem - sometimes ;-) it still seems to be a timing(?) issue.

​http://pastehtml.com/view/1ecef7m.html

viewing this page on ie8, sometimes focues the filteringselect, sometimes, the select seems focused (outer border is darker), but there's no cursor visible.

[Douglas Hays]

Using the setTimeout works well in IE9. IE8 seems confused by the dynamic INPUT. Adding this after your focus call allow it to work in IE8 everytime:
dijit.selectInputText(dijit.byId("myFilteringSelect").textbox, 0, 0);
I can't add this to focus() as a default since it'll reposition the input caret to the start which will be undesirable, except on page load. Since this seems like an IE8 specific bug and there's an easy workaround, and I can't see a way to fix this just for IE8 in the dijit code, this appears to be a wontfix.