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Subject: Re: Setting focus
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Tim Slattery wrote:

> My function creates a new <input type=file> element. It then attempts
> to set the focus on the new element. Like this:
> 
> o = document.getElementById("putithere");
> o.innerHTML = '<input type="file" id="newbox" />';
> document.getElementById("newbox").focus();
> 
> "putithere" is the id of an empty <div>. The id of the new element is
> dynamically generated in the real function, but the test function
> works the same way.
> 
> In IE and Chrome, this works just fine. The new box appears and it has
> the focus. But in Firefox the focus stays on the button that launched
> the function! Can I make Firefox handle this like IE and Chrome?

Probably not.  But avoiding “innerHTML” could help there; it would also be 
more efficient.  You looked and there were no relevant errors in the 
console, yes?

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