Re: Keeping focus on an editable div.

Solved this. There are a couple (so far as I can tell undocumented) CSS attributes that took care of the problem. I hope that they are safe to use (i.e. public APIs):

-khtml-user-modify:read;

-khtml-user-select:text;

Another undocumented feature (a function this time) I needed to implement selectAll was:

window.getSelection().setBaseAndExtent(myDiv, 0, myDiv, myDiv.innerText.length-1);

And, by the way, if you want to do this immediately after something like:

myDiv.innertText = "Some darn thing";

You'll want to call with a delay using:

setTimeout('selectAll();', 0);

-Tom

On May 9, 2005, at 4:32 PM, Tom Bunch wrote:

I'm working on a widget that takes a page from Stickies' book, as it were, but I can't see to get keyboard focus into my content-editable div. I can start it there, but if I click anywhere, including within the content area of said div, I can't get focus back. WebKit's implementation of <DIV> doesn't appear to support focus(). If anyone knows how to approximate the same thing, please let me know.

I haved pared my widget down to minimal source and confirmed that the code works as expected in Safari. It doesn't work in a widget. Here's a zip:

<http://people.omnigroup.com/tom/Test.zip>

The actual widget is of course rather more complicated. I would prefer to use an editable div rather than a textarea if possible.

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