Usability: focus first form element about subsectionmanager HOT 10 CLOSED

That's a good idea. I not sure if this will be possible in a cross-browser way as their behaviour in connections with iframes is somehow strange.

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I don't think the iframe would be an issue. So long as you've got the JavaScript inside the iframe itself (which is possible, since you're already embedding your own CSS when the page is loaded in an iframe) you shouldn't need to communicate across the iframe from the parent page — it'll all be done inside the child page.

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The problem is that you have to set the focus in the parent section. I'll have a look at it but I know that neither Firefox nor Internet Explorer will be my friends here :)

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You could load the child page in the iframe with a ?iframe=true parameter (or even #iframe) and check this with JS inside the child page with JS to set the focus. This way you don't communciate across the iframe, mitigating the usual security/DOM frustrations.

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Ah, I did that in an early version of Mediathek. That works well until the user hit the save button inside the iframe ...

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At which point there need be no auto-focus :-)

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Or... with JS you also append the same GET param to the <form> action so it persists after saving.

We did this with a project where we loaded Symphony forms in a lightbox from the frontend (http://drp.ly/FpX9e ) and it worked pretty well.

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Well, that's true. One point for you :)

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Or... with JS you also append the same GET param to the

action so it persists after saving.

That's what I did with Mediathek - it didn't work out well. But I'm sure focussing will work, somehow ...

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Subsection Manager should now focus the first input field of the subsection.

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