jQuery: trigger click or focus input field

Question

I have a page with multiple divs that all look like the example below. Each div contains a field, a hidden field and a button.

How can I achieve that by click on the button the (visible) input field gets triggered ? I need to trigger either a click or focus as both fire the same function.

Each button in question has the class="triggerBtn" and the corresponding input field has the class="inputField".

Example div:

<div>
    <input type="text" class="inputField" id="field1" name="field1" />
    <input type="hidden" name="field1" />
    <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary triggerBtn">Find</button>
</div>

`$(".triggerBtn").click(function(e){ myFunction(); });` and `$(".inputField").focus(function(e){ myFunction(); });` — TCHdvlp, Dec 17 '13 at 13:29

score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 17 '13 at 13:31

18

I guess you want:

$(".triggerBtn").click(function () {
    $(this).closest('div').find('.inputField').focus();
});

answered Dec 17 '13 at 13:31

A. Wolff

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You guess... Like all of us. As long as this question is unclear, we can't help him/her. – TCHdvlp Dec 17 '13 at 13:32
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You guessed right ! :) Thanks for the quick reply and sorry I wasnt clear enough. – user2571510 Dec 17 '13 at 14:30

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 17 '13 at 13:30

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add Onclick="function()" see here if you need to trigger it manually using jquery you can to this by

$("#field1").trigger("click");

see also here

answered Dec 17 '13 at 13:30

AmOs

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 17 '13 at 13:31

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$(".triggerBtn").on("click",function(e){
      $(this).closest("div").find(".inputField").click();
     //or $(this).closest("div").find(".inputField").focus();
});

answered Dec 17 '13 at 13:31

Khanh TO

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 17 '13 at 13:35

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$(".triggerBtn").parent().children("input[type:text]").first().focus()

answered Dec 17 '13 at 13:35

Jeet

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shouldn't `input[type:text]` be `input[type='text']`? – Adam Merrifield Dec 17 '13 at 13:42

patel.milanb · Answer 5 · 2013-12-17T13:36:12.153

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Updated Jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ZmL4y/3/

$(document).on("click",".triggerBtn", function() { 
    var inputField =  $(this).closest('div').find('.inputField');
    if($(inputField).is(":visible"))
    {
       $(inputField ).focus();
    }
});

edited Dec 17 '13 at 13:36

answered Dec 17 '13 at 13:29

patel.milanb

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How can you focus an array of elements ? – TCHdvlp Dec 17 '13 at 13:30

jQuery: trigger click or focus input field

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