Comments on: Fixing anchor focus in Safari and Opera

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:05:10 +0000

Great fix thanks! A couple of small improvements if I may..

1. $(target).attr({ tabIndex : -1 }).focus(); // is a bit more compact
2. changing the tabIndex from 0 to -1 prevents div#anchor from becoming part of the future tab order in Safari

By: kl

kl — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:04:07 +0000

I’d use event bubbling instead of static handlers on all (currently present) anchors, so it wouldn’t interfere with other onclick handlers, would nearly have zero initialization cost, and would work for all future links.

By: Russ

Russ — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:28:39 +0000

Indeed it is and I’m fully in favour of jQuery’s object detection. This is the first time I’ve had to target Safari and Opera in this way though so I haven’t had a chance to come up with a way to target those browsers with object detection only.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:17:52 +0000

Good point, I’ll be off to try that out sharpish.

One point to raise though is that $.browser is deprecated in jQuery and may well be dropping out in future versions. I will also now be writing a home-brew version of that sometime soon.