onChange event and focus()

**SimonFx** · Jul 23 '05, 05:28 PM

Re: onChange event and focus()

SimonFx wrote:[color=blue]
> Am I right in assuming that you can NOT set focus() back to a field in
> its onChange event? Is there another way - I have validation that I
> would like to set the focus back to the invalid field onChange?
>
> Eg:
> <input type=text" name="tstfld" onChange="windo w.alert('Change d!');
> this.focus()">[/color]

I think I have solved this using setTimeout, but it feels dirty.

function validateField (f){
// blah blah field is bad so:
setTimeout ('document.' + f.form.name + '.' + f.name + '.focus()',100) ;
setTimeout ('window.alert (\'Invalid entry.\')', 100);
}

</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<FORM NAME="myForm">
<input type="text" name="myFld" onChange="valid ateField(this); ">
</FORM>

onChange event and focus()

onChange event and focus()

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