Angularjs - next input on keypress

Question

I've been trying to implement a directive that watch everytime the user hit the keyboard.

I have four different inputs and each of them receives a single character and the user should fill the next form

I wrote a directive for this but it doesn't work

here's my code:

JS:

var app = angular.module('app', []);

app.directive('focus', function() {

  return {

    restrict: 'A',

    link: function($scope,elem,attrs) {



      elem.bind('keydown', function(e) {

         elem.next().focus();



      });

    }

  }

})

HTML:

<div ng-app="app">

    <form>

        <input  focus type="text"   /> 

        <input  focus type="text"   /> 

        <input focus type="text"   />

    </form>

</div>

Jsfiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/Y2XLA/109/

very similar question: angularjs move focus to next control on enter

Probably it's something simple but I'm not getting it right

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Solution is quite simple, just add a [0] after the .next():

    elem.bind('keydown', function (e) {
        elem.next()[0].focus();
    });

But you prbly want to use keyup instead of keydown, so you enter the value to the old input field before switching to the next one. Updated fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Y2XLA/110/

You should also add some handling for the case that elem.next() is not an input field.

Angularjs - next input on keypress

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