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Question

Answer 1

+2 A:

myInputField.addEventListener('mouseover', function(e) {
    e.target.focus();
}, false);

Delan Azabani 2010-08-20 14:06:41

just going to note this is correct for standards compliant browsers, but not IE.

lincolnk 2010-08-20 15:04:15

Answer 2

+4 A:

without jquery..

<input type=text   ....   onMouseOver="this.focus();">

Fosco 2010-08-20 14:07:54

Logic should be separate from structure and content, therefore using the traditional attribute way of binding events is not clean.

Delan Azabani 2010-08-20 14:09:00

No offense, but all I heard was "blah blah blah."

Fosco 2010-08-20 14:20:30

actually whatever uses less code and still has no errors is always better Delan...

David 2010-08-20 16:31:35

How to bring focus to a text field when you hover over it