I have two input fields. I want to force the focus on #area no matter where the user clicks unless it is on #input. I've tried something like this, but since input is part of document, it does not work.
$("#area").focus();
$(document).click(function() { $("#area").focus() };
$("#input").click(function() { $("#input").focus() };
Thoughts?
change it to
$("#area").focus();
$(document).click(function() { $("#area").focus() });
$("#input").click(function(e) { e.stopPropagation(); $("#input").focus() });
This will stop the event from bubbling up to the document, and will only be caught by the #input
The stopPropogation
solution is simpler than what I'm about to suggest, but it's probably worth discussing this other option. In that first function you've got, you might try taking the first argument to the function, which is a jQuery normalized event object:
$(document).click(function(event) { ...
and testing it to see if the target
property of the event is your input:
$(document).click(function(event) {
if(! (event.target == $("#input").get(0)) )
$("#area").focus();
}
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