fckeditor holds on to focus in IE

When when the fckeditor text area is scrolled completely off the screen and a form submit button is pressed, fckeditor will re-grab focus and jerk the whole view back to itself. This is a problem for larger web pages; it means if a web page has a fckeditor and also has a 'save' button that are far enough apart that they cannot both be on the screen at the same time, then clicking on the save button prompts the fckeditor to regrab focus and the whole viewport to move back to the fckeditor and the onclick code of the save button is never executed. The only way to get the fckeditor to relinquish focus is to click somewhere outside of the fckeditor while the fckeditor is on the screen, then the user can scroll up and successfully press the save button.

This only happens in IE. Is there a way to work-around this?

Wed, 10/07/2009 - 20:22

ask_jay

Joined: 06/08/2009

Posts: 2

Re: fckeditor holds on to focus in IE

We have also been having this same exact problem and so far, can not find a solution for it. When focus is left inside of the FCK Editor text area, clicking on any post/postback control, whether a navigation tab or a submit button, will jump focus to the FCK text area. If you click on any control a second time, it will work unless you put focus back into the text area. If I keep putting the cursor back into the text area where it is blinking, and click on any button or control on the page that posts back to the server, it will steal focus back. If you were to go to another control on the page or click on any white-space on the page prior to posting, the post works fine. This is extremely annoying to our users and we have not been able to develop a workaround except to tell them to use FireFox, which is unacceptable. Any suggestions or fixes would be much appreciated.