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user1057679
user1057679

Reputation: 441

not losing the focus event on jquery

I have this html:

<div style="display:none" id="myDiv">
 <a href="javascript:adToText('some text 1')">click me</a><br>
 <a href="javascript:adToText('some text 2')">click me</a><br>
 <a href="javascript:adToText('some text 3')">click me</a><br>
</div>

<textarea id="myText">
 hey
</textarea>

javascript:
$("textarea").live("focus",function(){
 $("#myDiv").css("display","block");
});

$("textarea").live("blur",function(){
 $("#myDiv").css("display","none");
});

on textarea focus I set the div style to display:block so we can click the javascript link the script will add text to the textarea

on textarea blur I set the div style to display:none

I need to see the div links so I can add them more then 1 time but what happens is that when I click a link the div sets to display:none because I am focusedout of the textarea

Upvotes: 2

Views: 302

Answers (2)

Samich
Samich

Reputation: 30175

You can prevent loosing focus like this:

$('a').mousedown(function() { return false; })
      .click(function() { alert('works'); });

Code: http://jsfiddle.net/2qMFX/7/

Upvotes: 2

Saeed Neamati
Saeed Neamati

Reputation: 35852

I recommend that you let user close the div on-demand. This means that on entering focus to the <textarea>, you display div, and on div you have a close button, that use can click and close.

Upvotes: 0

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