[jQuery] get next item of sibling relationship unknown (was: first child of type form control)

[dug]

Richard,

Thanks for your fantastic advice on my "next" problem.

I realise that the way I initially asked the question I didn't explain
the requirement in enough detail. Here's my challenge:

- I have a valid xhtml document that contains a <a name="ScrollTo"
class="scrollTo" /> tag. I don't know where this tag will appear, it
may be in a form, it may not.

- There will be instances (I don't control the doc gen) where multiple
<a name="ScrollTo" class="scrollTo" /> tags appear

- in some cases, the page will include objects with class="scrollTo"
AND class="errorState"

The script does two things.

1 - If exists class="errorState" then scroll the page down to the
first instance of errorState. Else scroll page to first instance of
class="ScrollTo"

2 - Starting from the point the page has been scrolled to, continue
down the document and set the focus to the next instance of a form
input widget (any, could be radio, check, textarea, text, select etc.)

The problem I have is I can't know ahead of time the sibling
relationship between the first instance of error or scroll and the
form input object.

Currently I have the following:

$(document).ready(function() {

        // scroll to the first instance of ".errorState" if exists otherwise
scroll to ".scrollTo"
        var $scrollTarget = $('.errorState');
        if($scrollTarget.length > 0) {
                        $.scrollTo('.errorState', 1000);
                        $('.errorState').findNext(":input").focus();
                } else {
                        $.scrollTo('.scrollTo', 1000);
                        $('.scrollTo').findNext(":input").focus();
        }

});

The scroll is working but the focus only works intermittently

Thanks :-)
Dug