Trouble focusing to an iframe (Opera, designMode = on)

I'm using Opera 9.20

Suppose I have an iframe in which I have set its document's designMode to  
on. Is there a way to programatically give focus to that frame and allow  
the user to type afterwards?

In IE 6 and Firefox 2.0, this works:

frames['the_id'].focus();

In Opera 9.00, after calling that code keyboard events (keypress, keydown)  
 from the frame's document is registered, however no key appear there when  
a user types (the typing cursor/caret doesn't show up either).

example: http://agro.web.ugm.ac.id/operabug/operabug.htm

On Sun, 13 May 2007 07:42:54 +0200, Agro Rachmatullah wrote:

> I'm using Opera 9.20
>
> Suppose I have an iframe in which I have set its document's designMode  
> to on. Is there a way to programatically give focus to that frame and  
> allow the user to type afterwards?
>
> In IE 6 and Firefox 2.0, this works:
>
> frames['the_id'].focus();
>
> In Opera 9.00, after calling that code keyboard events (keypress,  
> keydown)  from the frame's document is registered, however no key appear  
> there when a user types (the typing cursor/caret doesn't show up either).
>
> example: http://agro.web.ugm.ac.id/operabug/operabug.htm
>
> Thanks a lot

I don't know enough JavaScript to offer a workaround (apart from clicking  
in the textarea to focus it...). I can can tell you though that the  
testcase works as you want in my Kestrel (next big Opera release) build.

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                                                    Rijk van Geijtenbeek
                                  Opera Software ASA, Documentation & QA