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Feb 06.2012

I am developing an ajax app where I need to disable a menu when
the user begins to use a form. I have the ‘disabling’ code well in hand,
but since I have never used event handlers for forms, I would welcome
opinions on whether the [B]onfocus[/B] event would be the preferable
event to attach. And if not, what event would be the optimum.

thanks
tim

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@rtretheweyFeb 06.2012 — You'd need to put the onfocus() setting on all of the individual <input> elements because <form> doesn't support onfocus(), but it could be done. Good luck!
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@tim042849authorFeb 06.2012 — Thanks for the reply, Rick.

I see from http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_form.asp

under The <form> tag supports the following event attributes:[/quote]
That the [B]onclick[/B] event [B]is[/B] supported.

1)Would you recommend using [B]onclick[/B]

2)Regarding installing an [B]onfocus[/B] event listener for all elements

would be trivial for me - would just entail some minor code additions

in my server-side view handling, but ? I'm a little lazy and want to

keep the content compact.

What do you think about using [COLOR="DarkRed"]onclick[/COLOR]?

thanks again
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@tim042849authorFeb 06.2012 — Well, I've done a little testing. I am finding that there are unexpected

results with an onclick handler in the form tag. But, it looks like [COLOR="DarkRed"]onmouseover[/COLOR] does the trick.

cheers? tim
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