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Something very annoying has recently come to my attention. (Forum related)
2005-02-27, 10:39 PM #1
Has anyone ever noticed that the "submit" button cannot get focus? It's clickable, but it never gets focus. Of course the implication of this is that you can't send a post with a keyboard alone. I was using one of the computers in the lab last week, learned that the mouse was not functioning, and I was too lazy to switch computers, so I went on with the keyboard alone. All was well until I went to submit a long post and discovered that slippery submit button can't get focus! :p
"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009
2005-02-27, 10:44 PM #2
Nevermind what I said earlier, you are right
2005-02-27, 10:45 PM #3
Works for me too
2005-02-27, 10:47 PM #4
You're telling me you can use the keyboard to get focus on the submit button? I've tested this in Mozilla and Firefox and so far no tacos.
"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009
2005-02-27, 10:48 PM #5
You could always tab to another form field and hit enter.

And no, I can't get focus on the submit button either.
2005-02-27, 10:48 PM #6
Well I'll be damned, Vinny you're a genius. Still, that's really counter-intuitive.
"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009
2005-02-27, 10:57 PM #7
Quote:
Originally posted by Freelancer
Well I'll be damned, Vinny you're a genius.


QFT

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2005-02-27, 11:44 PM #8
test

It does get focus but I can't see the outline
2005-02-27, 11:49 PM #9
Okay, it actually DOES get focus, but ONLY if you click it. And you can't see the outline. However, you CANNOT get focus with the keyboard. It goes from the bottom checkbox to the link called vbcode or somesuch, skipping the submit and preview buttons.
"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009
2005-02-27, 11:59 PM #10
I tab from the message box right to the submit button with this test-post
2005-02-28, 12:00 AM #11
Mind posting your browser and OS?
"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009
2005-02-28, 12:02 AM #12
winxp
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
2005-02-28, 12:04 AM #13
Hrm. I have the same setup except I'm using Firefox version 0.9.2 instead of 1.0.1. You think that could be it?
"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009
2005-02-28, 12:12 AM #14
By the way, the order for me is: title, message, submit, preview and then ad-banner and down from there the other items in visible order
2005-02-28, 5:59 AM #15
You could always just use the access key; "alt+s"...
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2005-02-28, 7:08 AM #16
Let me see...

Yep, I can post using the keyboard by simply tabbing to the next field and hitting enter.
2005-02-28, 9:57 AM #17
Firefox 0.9 Win2kPro

hit tab once, then enter, do it everytime.
2005-02-28, 10:24 AM #18
Quote:
Originally posted by gbk
You could always just use the access key; "alt+s"...



That's what I alsways do. Forums without this function are stupid (gaia online is a good example).
VTEC just kicked in, yo!
2005-02-28, 1:29 PM #19
interesting, just tested posting with just the keyboard, works fine in win XP sp2 and firefox 1.01....

[edit]Just so you know how, just type the message press tab once and although it doesn't seem like its on the post message button it is....strange how while tabbing through it doesn't pick up the button though....[/edit]
People of our generation should not be subjected to mornings.

Rbots
2005-02-28, 2:39 PM #20
Focus? :confused:
DO NOT WANT.
2005-02-28, 2:52 PM #21
Yeah, press tab on your keyboard and notice the little dotted box surrounding stuff like hyperlinks and form elements (like buttons, checkboxes, etc). An element is said to have focus if the keyboard can currently activate it. The mouse is slightly different in that usually focus and activation are simultaneous. And yes, James Bond you are right. I have no idea how I failed to notice that earlier.
"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009
2005-02-28, 3:02 PM #22
wrararararar
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2005-02-28, 7:56 PM #23
Works fine for me, as it always had. Even using the same version as you, on 2 different PCs.

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