Set Focus for different Textboxes using single JQuery

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In my webform, I have 10 textboxes. I need to focus on the next textbox when Enter/Return is pressed. Is there any way to achieve this by just using a single jquery function without writing 10 different function

Posted 3-Aug-13 21:57pm

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André Kraak · Answer 1 · 2013-08-03T22:19:00

A quick search landed me on this OS answer[^] which has a link to an example which does what you want.

The link: http://www.latentmotion.com/downloads/enter-to-tab.html[^]

The source:

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js?ver=1.3.2'></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function(){
        $("input").not( $(":button") ).keypress(function (evt) {
            if (evt.keyCode == 13) {
                iname = $(this).val();
                if (iname !== 'Submit'){
                    var fields = $(this).parents('form:eq(0),body').find('button,input,textarea,select');
                    var index = fields.index( this );
                    if ( index > -1 && ( index + 1 ) < fields.length ) {
                        fields.eq( index + 1 ).focus();
                    }
                    return false;
                }
            }
        });
    });
</script>
<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>

<body>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="http://www.codeproject.com">

  <label>
    <input type="text" name="textfield" id="textfield" />
  </label>
  <label>
    <input type="text" name="textfield2" id="textfield2" />
  </label>
  <label>
    <input type="text" name="textfield3" id="textfield3" />
  </label>

  <label>
    <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Submit" />
  </label>
</form>
</body>
</html>