I've been searching for a solution to dynamically changing the selectedindex of a tabstrip using javacript and so far have been unsuccessful.

I figured i'd give it a bash myself but have been having some problems. I'm trying to chande the selected tab to enable me to focus a particular control, so far i've got this:

function focusControl(control)


{


    var aControl = control;


    while ((aControl.parentElement != null) && (aControl.parentElement.tagName != 'PageView'))


    {


        aControl = aControl.parentElement;


    }


    


    if ((aControl.parentElement != null) && (aControl.parentElement.tagName == 'PageView'))


    {


        var pageControl = aControl.parentElement;


        var tabStrip = document.getElementById('_TabStrip');


        for (var child in tabStrip.children)


        {


            if ((child.getAttribute("_type") == "tab") &&


                (child.getAttribute("targetID") == pageControl.id))


            {


                child.fireEvent('onclick');


                break;


            }


        }


    }


    control.focus();


}

the problem i'm having is that i just get a 'property or method not supported' error when it hits child.getAttribute. I can see in the source of the tabstrip that this is being assigned for the control so i don't understand why it's not supported.

Any ideas? Or anybody know a better way of achieving this?

Somebody must have managed to change the selected tab using javascript?

I've seen this asked a few times with no reply, surely this is possibe?

one last bump in desperation...