How can i find out what item has the focus on a form?

[pierrez]

I am disabling a field on a form, which works fine most of the time but occassionaly will throw an error saying that it cannot commit the action as the item is in focus.

Is there a way I can detect which item on the form has focus before I try and disable my field?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Darren,

I am not too sure whether you can find out which input element is in focus, but for your case I can suggest a workaround.

What you can do is, set the focus away from this field you are disabling, and then try disabling this field. For setting other fields in focus, you can use the requestFocus() mehtod.

Regards,

Satyajit.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Darren,

Did you try disabling the field through a context attribute or are you disabling it in wdDoModifyView?

Thanks,

Rajit