focus

[jkstinn]

I apologize for another post about focus, but whatever I try just
doesn't seem to work. I appreciate any ideas that you could give me on
getting the focus back to the textbox after tabbing or clicking out.
Jason

function checkTime(timeV al) {
var hr, mn;
if (timeVal.length != 4)
{
alert("Time entered must be 4 characters: ex. 0130.");
document.setCon d.elements['hwtime'].focus();
}



<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="hwtime" ID="hwTime" SIZE=4 MAXLENGTH=4
VALUE="Time" onfocus='this.v alue="";'
onchange='check Time(this.value );'>

[Erwin Moller]

Re: focus

jkstinn wrote:
[color=blue]
> I apologize for another post about focus, but whatever I try just
> doesn't seem to work. I appreciate any ideas that you could give me on
> getting the focus back to the textbox after tabbing or clicking out.
> Jason
>
> function checkTime(timeV al) {
> var hr, mn;
> if (timeVal.length != 4)
> {
> alert("Time entered must be 4 characters: ex. 0130.");
> document.setCon d.elements['hwtime'].focus();
> }
>
>
>
> <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="hwtime" ID="hwTime" SIZE=4 MAXLENGTH=4
> VALUE="Time" onfocus='this.v alue="";'
> onchange='check Time(this.value );'>[/color]

Hi,

What is setCond?
Difficult to say without the complete code.

I am sure the following code works:
document.forms. yourformnameher e.hwtime.focus( );

where you have to replace yourformnameher e by the name of the form this
element is in.

Please also check you are not accidentally using the same formname and
elementname twice.
Why are you using an ID and a name? (Just curious)
You could also try to remove the onfocus='this.v alue="";' and place that in
the function BEFORE the focus-command.

Hope that helps.
Regards,
Erwin Moller

[jkstinn]

Re: focus

Erwin Moller <since_humans_r ead_this_I_am_s pammed_too_much @spamyourself.c om> wrote in message news:<3f9e34f1$ 0$58707$e4fe514 c@news.xs4all.n l>...[color=blue]
> jkstinn wrote:
>[color=green]
> > I apologize for another post about focus, but whatever I try just
> > doesn't seem to work. I appreciate any ideas that you could give me on
> > getting the focus back to the textbox after tabbing or clicking out.
> > Jason
> >
> > function checkTime(timeV al) {
> > var hr, mn;
> > if (timeVal.length != 4)
> > {
> > alert("Time entered must be 4 characters: ex. 0130.");
> > document.setCon d.elements['hwtime'].focus();
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="hwtime" ID="hwTime" SIZE=4 MAXLENGTH=4
> > VALUE="Time" onfocus='this.v alue="";'
> > onchange='check Time(this.value );'>[/color]
>
> Hi,
>
> What is setCond?
> Difficult to say without the complete code.
>
> I am sure the following code works:
> document.forms. yourformnameher e.hwtime.focus( );
>
> where you have to replace yourformnameher e by the name of the form this
> element is in.
>
> Please also check you are not accidentally using the same formname and
> elementname twice.
> Why are you using an ID and a name? (Just curious)
> You could also try to remove the onfocus='this.v alue="";' and place that in
> the function BEFORE the focus-command.
>
> Hope that helps.
> Regards,
> Erwin Moller[/color]
Erwin

setCond is the name of my form. I was using ID and names when I was
trying to access an element from different ways trying to get the
thing to work. I went ahaed and took out all the IDs', as you had said
that maybe I had a naming problem. That still didn't work. I was using
onchange to test the text for correct information. When I changed the
onchange to onblur, the focus() would work. What is the difference
between the onchange and onblur that would make the focus work?

Thank you for your help.

Jason

[Erwin Moller]

Re: focus

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>
> setCond is the name of my form. I was using ID and names when I was
> trying to access an element from different ways trying to get the
> thing to work. I went ahaed and took out all the IDs', as you had said
> that maybe I had a naming problem. That still didn't work. I was using
> onchange to test the text for correct information. When I changed the
> onchange to onblur, the focus() would work. What is the difference
> between the onchange and onblur that would make the focus work?[/color]

The difference is that onBlur means something like: "Loosing the focus"
and on change means: "changing the value"
[color=blue]
> You could also try to remove the onfocus='this.v alue="";' and place that[/color]
in the function BEFORE the focus-command.

Did you try that?
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>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Jason[/color]

Good luck!

Regards,
Erwin