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How can I set focus to the window when the user moves the mouse over it?
Sep 23rd, 2001 03:38
Martin Honnen,
You can set up a
document.onmouseover
handler to call
window.focus()
which will then fire when the user moves the mouse over the content area
of the window.
You need however to be careful to call window.focus() only when the
mouse comes from the outside of the window.
With IE4+ you can check
if (!event.fromElement)
With NN6 you should be able to check
if (!evt.relatedTarget)
where evt is the argument of you onmouseover handler. However I can't
get the NN6 code to work as intended therefore the above example is IE4+
only:
<html>
<head>
<title>
window activation onmouseover
</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.onmouseover = function (evt) {
if (document.all && !event.fromElement)
window.focus();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
Kibology
</body>
</html>
