In-page popup not supporting DOM structure/properties

Adhiraj Rankhambe
Thu, 22 May 2008 06:37:23 -0000

In my current app, I have an in-page popup(those semi-transparent ones
like you find on Facebook) for login, which has only two fields: login
and password.
I am not able to set focus in the login field.

document.getElementById(''element'').focus(); doesn''t
seem to work.
document.getElementById(''element'') returns "null".

I have a link for ''Login'' on the ''Home
Page''. When user clicks on the
Login link, an in-page pop is rendered on the same page, so you can see
the ''Home Page'' in the background, but focus is on the
''Login popup''.
I think that''s because we have two layers of documents, one the
''Home
Page'' and second the ''Login'' popup''. So
something wrong with the DOM
structure. Not sure...

Does anyone know how to handle this situation?

Thanks in advance