Q335 Is there a way to automatically put focus on the next input text field and continue to have to user typing when the previous input text field is full?

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Q335 Is there a way to automatically put focus on the next input text field and continue to have to user typing when the previous input text field is full?

Only in Netscape Navigator 4 or Internet Explorer 4:

<head>

<script language="JavaScript"><!--
function KeyPress(what,e,max,action) {
    if (document.layers) {
        if (e.target.value.length >= max)
            eval(action);
    }
    else if (document.all) {
        if (what.value.length > (max-1))
            eval(action);
    }
}
//--></script>

</head>

<body>

<form>

  <input type="text" name="text1" size="1" maxlength="1" onKeyUp="KeyPress(this,event,1,'what.form.text2.focus()')">
- <input type="text" name="text2" size="2" maxlength="2" onKeyUp="KeyPress(this,event,2,'what.form.text3.focus()')">
- <input type="text" name="text3" size="3" maxlength="3" onKeyUp="KeyPress(this,event,3,'what.form.text4.focus()')">
- <input type="text" name="text4" size="4" maxlength="4" onKeyUp="KeyPress(this,event,4,'what.form.text5.focus()')">
- <input type="text" name="text5" size="5" maxlength="5" onKeyUp="KeyPress(this,event,5,'what.form.text6.focus()')">
- <input type="text" name="text6" size="6" maxlength="6" onKeyUp="KeyPress(this,event,5,'what.form.text6.focus()')">
</form>

</body>

Johan Sundström writes:

Additional restraint on where it works: Netscape Navigator on Unix (at least 4.75 and below) don't succeed in doing this using just an onKeyUp handler.

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