Shift focus into embedded document, so user can navigate

Question

When the user's browser opens an embedded .pdf document, I shift the focus into that document, so the user can navigate backwards or forwards through the document using the keyboard: up-arrow, down-arrow, Home, End, Pgup, Pgdn.

To shift the focus, I use the following javascript, called by the onload event-handler of the frame in which the document is embedded:

/* if the frame is an <iframe> element,
   focus shifts in all browsers EXCEPT IE Explorer & Microsoft Edge */
/* if the frame is an <embed> element,
   focus shifts ONLY in Firefox */
/* the alert never fires */

function embedFocus() {
 var embedFrame = document.getElementById("embedFrame");

 if (embedFrame && embedFrame.focus) {
  embedFrame.focus(); }
 else {
  alert('embedded frame has no focus method'); }
}

What do I need to change to get Microsoft Edge and IE Explorer to shift the focus into a document embedded in an iframe element?

All you need is google https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2600186/focus-doesnt-work-in-ie — Javier S, Mar 31 '18 at 13:31

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 31 '18 at 13:34

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Perhaps like this:

document.all.MY_ELEMENT_ID.focus();

answered Mar 31 '18 at 13:34

suchislife

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