Feedback: Controlling Data Entry Using Form Fields

Feedback on: Controlling Data Entry Using Form Fields

Sent by Rob Stevenson on February 13, 2000 at 09:55:01: - feedback #813

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But unfortunately the examples don't work in my browser! MSIE 4.5 Mac. They do work as described in NC 4.7 Mac. But they're not much use unless they work in more browsers. (Yes, I have JavaScript working in MSIE.)

Sent by Greg Stubblefield on March 03, 2000 at 11:26:09: - feedback #894

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Next Challenge:

Same scenario (tabless form advance), but this time, please demonstrate how to accomplish this with fields of VARYING lengths.

Can it be done?

Sent by Andrew Freeman on April 05, 2000 at 08:52:05: - feedback #1041

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One problem... How do you do a shift-tab BACK to a field that has already been filled in? It automatically advances to the NEXT field again without allowing me to edit it first. You can get ahead of the JS by holding down the shift-tab keys but then you go back too many fields.

Sent by Ramon Ruiz-Castillo on July 12, 2000 at 04:23:41: - feedback #1480

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There is a problem with the final code when using Ms Explorer 5.

Example: Taking control of the length of a 4 digits text field on a row of fields.

You focus on the last field of the row and then if you did not reach the "maxlength", you focus back.

In Explorer 5 this causes the number is written badly because even if there is text in the field the cursor goes to the first position.

So: 4732
Appears as: 2374

Please, check it and let me know if you get the same trouble.

Best.

Sent by Rob von Nesselrode on November 16, 2000 at 21:45:52: - feedback #2015

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Please indicate the DOM's to which your articles apply. Its getting to the point where I don't want non W3C DOM compliant material as this is where DHTML is at now...

Sent by Kenneth Kawamura on April 05, 2001 at 15:30:29: - feedback #2588

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Too short

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Not technical enough

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Interesting subject, confusing article. Not enough documentation; what platform, browser, and browser version was used for the tests? I can't duplicate the reported anomalies in NS 4.76 nor in MSIE 5.0 . The suggested implementation is not usable, it doesn't accommodate back-tabbing to edit previous entries.

Sent by Fatemeh Shams on June 29, 2001 at 08:52:08: - feedback #2924

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I noticed a slight problem with the code. I entered 5 digits in first 5 boxes and used my mouse to focus on the third one to change that. Well, after I changed the third box, the focus went to the fourth box while it was correct and I didn't want to change it. You could set the focus on the sixth box(the closest empty box) so the user does not need to use more tabs to go forward. This is very useful in case of two many boxes.
Thanks

Sent by Margarita Manterola on November 14, 2002 at 13:31:28: - feedback #4271

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I use Galeon. A browser derived from Mozilla, and almost all the forms in this page worked for me!

Great article, anyway.

Sent by Jose Benzan on Wednesday April 18, 2007 at 12:40:52 - feedback #4454

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Excellent article.. it helped me a lot