HTML: When a browser scrolls to an input, how can one make it bring the entire input's parent into view?
I'm not a web guy, so this might be something really simple I'm missing, but:
Consider the following page: http://pastehtml.com/view/1bg9qno.htmlWhich is basically a list of <input>
s, and each input has a helper <span>
with text (that will change along with the input's value on keyUp
).
So when the list is long enough (like in the above HTML page), if you tab thru the inputs, you will eventually get to the input on the bottom of the page, tab again, and the browser will scroll down to the next input.
In my case, the input has the helper text which is crucial to my app.
The problem is that when the user tabs down to the input that is not visible, the browser only brings that input into the view, and not his entire parent (<div class="item">
) which contains the helper text. As a result, this helper text is not visible to the user while he enters stuff in the input.
How can one tell the browser to bring the entire parent into view when focusing the out-of-view input?
Is there any elegant solution?BTW: This doesn't happen in Chrome, since Chrome always scrolls down a part-page, but it always happens in Firefox which always scrolls as little as possible to the input.
The HTML looks like this:
<body>
<div class="item">
<input type="text" value="text" />
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<span>helper text</span>
</div>
<hr />
...
<hr />
<div class="item">
<input type="text" value="text" />
<br />
<span>helper text</span>
</div>
</body>
<html>
<head>
<script>
function scrollParentIntoView(elem){
setTimeout(function(){
var children = elem.parentNode.children;
var lastChild = children[children.length - 1];
lastChild.scrollIntoView();
elem.parentNode.scrollIntoView();
//elem.ScrollIntoView();
},1);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
...
<div>
<input onfocus="scrollParentIntoView(this);" />
...
<p>end</p>
</div>
...
</body>
</html>
I've tested on FF and Chrome and seems to do the job - you can see the input and 'end' when each '...' is replaced with a dozen
tags
Here is a solution using jQuery. It's based on the height of your item container.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".item input").focus(function() {
var parent = $(this).parent();
// Check if the bottom of the item container is below the viewport
if ($(parent).position().top + $(parent).height() > $(window).scrollTop() + $(window).height())
{
// Adjust the scroll position according to the height of the item container
$(window).scrollTop($(window).scrollTop() + $(parent).height());
}
});
});
</script>
Edit
Here is a demo for you: http://pastehtml.com/view/1bnv1xb.html
This Javascript works in FF 3.6, IE 8, Safari 4, and Chrome 3.1. It doesn't require JQuery, doesn't need setTimeout
s, and can be condensed to about 8 lines:
//Collect the elements
var ALL = document.getElementsByTagName("INPUT");
for(x=0;x<ALL.length;x++) {
//Add relative position style to allow offset math
ALL.style.position = 'relative';
ALL[x].onfocus = function() {
//Find scroll offset distance
var temp = this.offsetParent.offsetTop +
this.offsetParent.offsetHeight -
document.documentElement.clientHeight;
//Detect webkit browser and apply scroll offset as appropriate
window.devicePixelRatio ?
document.body.scrollTop = temp :
document.documentElement.scrollTop = temp;
}
}
Of course, the obvious solution here is to put all the important content above the input
element, but it's obvious that that won't do for whatever reason, so here's another solution:
Remember that tabindex
can be used to allow any element to be focused. This means that we can simply drop a tabindex
on the parent of the input
elements to allow the entire parent to gain focus and scroll into view.
However, this also means that tab must be tapped twice to get the input
element focused. You will also need to explicitly set tabindex
on the input
element to have them be the next in line to gain focus.
<ol id="input">
<li tabindex="3">
<input type="text" tabindex="5" />
<p>Helper Text</p>
</li>
<li tabindex="7">
<input type="text" tabindex="10" />
<p>Helper Text</p>
</li>
</ol>
You'll also want to give the parent elements a :focus
style instead of the rather ugly dotted outline.
See: http://www.jsfiddle.net/F2fwy/2
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