[Seaside] Refload page on typing without losing focus?

[Johan Brichau]

That’s not really possible.

If you want to keep cursor position and keyboard focus etc… you can only do that by _not_ refreshing the input field itself.
i.e. use Ajax updates for the other elements you want to update…

cheers
Johan

> On 25 Mar 2019, at 20:27, Bernhard Pieber <bernhard at pieber.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I managed to show a validation message beneath an input field of type text on every keypress using jQuery. In this case I knew exactly which DOM element to change.
> 
> Now I would like to refresh the whole page on every keypress without having to know which DOM elements need changing. In the keypress callback I change some state and then I would like to rerender the page like it would when using renderContentOn:.
> 
> I know how to trigger a page reload. However, the challenge is to keep editing the input field, i.e. the keyboard focus, the cursor position and the text selection.
> 
> Is this possible somehow? Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> - Bernhard
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