ONFOCUS and ONBLUR attributes for TEXTAREA elements

On this page: Test 1 | References | About these tests

Nearby: More HTML 4.01 Tests | UAAG 1.0 Test Suite

UAAG 1.0 Requirement

Checkpoint 1.2 Activate event handlers (Priority 1 ): Provision 2 : In order to satisfy provision one of this checkpoint, the user must be able to activate as a group all event handlers of the same input device event type. For example, if there are 10 handlers associated with the onmousedown event type, the user must be able to activate the entire group of 10 through keyboard input alone, and must not be required to activate each handler separately.

Test 1 :

Procedure

Using the keyboard or an assistive technology that emulates the keyboard, move focus to the TEXTAREA control to trigger the onFocus event.
Using the keyboard or an assistive technology that emulates the keyboard, move focus off the TEXTAREA control to trigger the onBlur event.

Run test

Expected results

A red star appears in the box when the text area control receives focus.
The red star disappears when the text area control loses focus.

Source code

<table summary="layout table">
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">
        <form action="../action/return.html" method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
          <textarea onblur="blurTest('../images/clear.gif')" onfocus="focusTest('../images/starRed.gif')" name="text1" rows="1" cols="10"></textarea>
        </form>
      </td>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">
        <table border="1">
          <tbody>
            <tr>
              <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">
                <img id="redStar" height="35" alt="red star" src="../images/clear.gif" width="35" border="0" name="redStar"></img>
              </td>
            </tr>
          </tbody>
        </table>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

Test Script Code

				function focusTest (img) 
				{
   				document.redStar.src = img
				}

				function blurTest (img) 
				{
      			document.redStar.src = img
				}
			

References

About this test suite

This test is part of a test suite for the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 . This work is conducted by the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group , which is part of W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) . Please send comments on this test to w3c-wai-ua@w3.org ( public archive ).

Test created by:

Dominique Kilman
Colin Koteles

Last modified: $Date: 2003/04/02 23:46:28 $ by $Author: jongund $