Question

I am just trying to cycle the focus between elements inside a particular element when the tab key is pressed. What I want to do is not to set focus to any element which is not a descendant of an element when tab is pressed from the last control inside the element. At that time the focus must be set to the first input element inside the container.

I have done a sample and it its not working, and I am unable to figure out the issue.

Sample can be found here

The complete code is

Script

$(function(){
    $(":input:last","#div1").bind("keydown", function(e){
         if ( e.keyCode === 9 )
         {
             var firstElem = $(":input:first","#div1");
         firstElem.focus();
         }
    });
});

CSS

input.red { width: 200px; border: solid 1px red; }
input { width: 200px; }

HTML

<input type="text" class="red" />
<div id="div1">
    <input type="text" id="txt1" />
    <select id="sel1">
        <option>1</option>
    </select>
    <input type="text" id="txt2" />
</div>

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Edit

Thanks everyone. Problem solved. It was the lack of a return false; statement in the keydown event.

Answer 1

Try Keypress instead of Keydown

Also return false so that the keypress normal handling is cancelled.

What appears to be happening is that you are moving the focus then the tab happens, moving it to the select. You need to setfocus, then return false so that the regular tab is cancelled.

$(function(){
$(":input:last","#div1").bind("keydown", function(e){
     if ( e.keyCode === 9 )
     {
         var firstElem = $(":input:first","#div1");
         firstElem.focus();
         return false;
     }
});

});