Hello Mats,
I have investigated: this timer is inherited from AjaxForms.
I cannot say why it was added but I guess it was due to very old
browsers support.
Event management is still difficult and it is interesting to have a more
compliant behavior removing this timer.
Thanks!
--Alain
Le 30/01/2015 23:05, Mats Eklund a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to implement a form with an input field that has a hint
> text shown within the field. The hint text should disappear when the
> field is given focus by the user, and reappear upon loosing focus if
> the field is left empty by the user.
>
> Here's an example form.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet href="xsltforms/xsltforms.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
> <?xsltforms-options debug="yes"?>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
> xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
> xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events">
> <head>
> <title>Testing xf:input field with hint inline</title>
> <xf:model>
> <xf:instance>
> <myfields xmlns="">
> <search hint="Type here..."/>
> </myfields>
> </xf:instance>
> <xf:setvalue ev:event="xforms-model-construct-done"
> ref="search" value="@hint"/>
> </xf:model>
> </head>
> <body>
> <xf:input ref="search">
> <xf:label/>
> <xf:setvalue ev:event="DOMFocusIn" ref="." if=".=@hint"
> value="''"/>
> <xf:setvalue ev:event="DOMFocusOut" ref="." if=".=''"
> value="@hint"/>
> </xf:input>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> I don't get this to work though. The hint reappears whenever the field
> looses focus, whether user leaves it empty or not. I suspect this is
> because XSLTForms seems to trigger the xforms-value-changed event and
> updates the instance data only after triggering the DOMFocusOut event.
> This seems not to be in accordance with the XForms spec
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-xforms-20031014/slice4.html#rpm-event-seq-vcwfc).
>
>
> I had a look within xsltforms.js, and noticed a deferred call
> (setTimeout()) within XsltForms_control.blurHandler(), and suspect
> this may be the problem. If I unwrapped the setTimeout() call, the
> form worked fine. But I'm not sure if this has other side-effects, or
> why there was a setTimeout() in the first place.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
>
> Mats
>
>
>
>
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