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Form current focused item id

Peter K
1 decade ago Apr 05, 2010 1:10pm

Hi, is there a way to get the property id or tabindex (or any other descriptor) of the current focused item/field in a form? Thanks.

Henri Sara
1 decade ago Apr 06, 2010 12:24pm

Currently, Vaadin does not communicate the focused component back to the server.

However, since Vaadin 6.2, it is possible to get information about some focus changes by registering a FocusListener (and maybe also a BlurListener) on components that implement the interface FocusNotifier, including the many of the common types of fields used in forms.

If this is a common need in your application, you could even consider subclassing Form and implementing automatic focus tracking for such components within it.