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How do you refer to the A tag in javascript? What I mean to say is that if a textbox is referred to as document.form_name.textbox_name, how do i do this with the <A> html tag? Can i use document.form_name.a_name? I'd like to check if the focus of my cursor is on that tag... How can i do this? Thankss......

Hmm, try this:

<a href="file.htm" onfocus="gFocused='tag3'">I am tag3</a>


whenever you want to know who got the focus just read the global javascript variable gFocused and determine its value.

as for referring it from JavaScript, you have to give it an ID like:
<a id="tag3">
then do: ref=document.getElementById("tag3")

there is also array like: document.links array and document.anchors array, but i never tried them.


Elias

Anchor can be accessed this way also

document.getElementsByTagName("a")[3] //The 4th anchor

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Or

<a href="..." id="importantAnchorTag"></a>

with

document.getElementById('importantAnchorTag')

You can also access all links through document.links array...

How do I state,
if (focus is on the anchor tag) {
do this
}
in javascript?

(took this post away, it was probably wrong anyway)

[This message has been edited by HZR (edited 08-22-2002).]

I don't know of a function or anything in JavaScript (I'm still learning), but there's always more than one way to skin a cat.
On the onfocus event for each element you want to know about, assign to a global var the element's id, then when you want to check for focus, just loop through the elements comparing the ids with the global var.