select a content of div tag into textbox by arrow up down keys

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hello all,

I have text-box on focus and key-up of which div tag will get respective content and by mouse click i am selecting that content into a text-box. but now i want to select a content by arrow keys of keyboard.i want to highlight the content on arrow key-press also highlighted content will come in text-box.

for more explanation my text-box simply working as Ajax auto complete text-box but i am using xmlhttp response instead of Ajax controlas i am using dataviews not able to any control

can any body help me?

Posted 6-Oct-11 6:06am

pooja 08

Updated 6-Oct-11 6:59am

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John Y. · Answer 1 · 2011-10-06T09:37:00

Solution 1

try handling the onkeydown event

Posted 6-Oct-11 9:37am

John Y.

Muralikrishna8811 · Answer 2 · 2011-10-14T05:21:00

Hi,

I write some code for you .check this once.

HTML

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
    <script src="Scripts/jquery-1.4.1-vsdoc.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

    <script language ="javascript" >
        function f1() {

        }
        function f2(tid) {
            
            tid.style.backgroundColor = "White";
            tid.style.color = "red";
        }
        function f3(tid) {
            tid.style.backgroundColor = "";
            tid.style.color = "";
        }
        var tmp = -1;
        function f4() {
            var len = document.getElementById("parntdiv").childNodes.length;

           
            if (parseInt(event.keyCode) == 40) {
                //down
                if (parseInt(tmp) ==parseInt(len)-1) {
                    tmp = 0;
                }
                else {
                    
                        tmp = parseInt(tmp) + 1;
                    
                }
              
             
            }
            if (parseInt(event.keyCode) == 38) {
                //up

                if (parseInt(tmp) <= 0) {
                    tmp = parseInt(len) - 1;
                }
                else {
                    tmp = parseInt(tmp) - 1;
                }

            }
            fq();
        }
        function fq() {
            var len = document.getElementById("parntdiv").childNodes.length;
           
            if (parseInt(tmp) != parseInt(len) - 1) {
                f3(document.getElementById("parntdiv").childNodes[parseInt(tmp) + 1]);
            }
            if (parseInt(tmp) == parseInt(len) - 1) {
                f3(document.getElementById("parntdiv").childNodes[0]);
            }

            f2(document.getElementById("parntdiv").childNodes[parseInt(tmp)]);
            document.getElementById("txtsearch").innerText = document.getElementById("parntdiv").childNodes[parseInt(tmp)].innerText;
            if (parseInt(tmp) > 0) {
                f3(document.getElementById("parntdiv").childNodes[parseInt(tmp) - 1]);
            }
            if (parseInt(tmp) == 0 || parseInt(tmp) == -1) {
                f3(document.getElementById("parntdiv").childNodes[parseInt(len) - 1]);
            }
            
        }
    </script>
  
    <style type="text/css">
        #txtsearch
        {
            width: 318px;
        }
    </style>
  
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
     <div id="dfsdf">
   
       <input type ="text" id="txtsearch" onkeyup="f1()" onkeydown="f4()"   /><br />
       
        <div id="parntdiv" style=" width:318px; background-color :Black ; color:White;">
          <div id="child1" onmouseenter="f2(this)" onmouseout="f3(this)">child one</div>
           <div id="child2" onmouseenter="f2(this)" onmouseout="f3(this)">child two</div>
            <div id="child3" onmouseenter="f2(this)" onmouseout="f3(this)">child three</div>
             <div id="child4" onmouseenter="f2(this)" onmouseout="f3(this)">child four</div>
             <div id="child5" onmouseenter="f2(this)" onmouseout="f3(this)">child five</div>
             <div id="child6" onmouseenter="f2(this)" onmouseout="f3(this)">child six</div>
        </div>
        <br />
        <div id="resdiv" style=" width:318px; background-color :Black ; color:White;"></div>
     </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

you can modify it to achieve your requirement.

All the Best