SetFocus using Javascript

[Joe]

Hi,

I have a textbox on an asp page.

The text in my textbox is 'MM/DD/YYYY'.

When the user tabs into teh textbox I clear
the 'MM/DD/YYYY' and set focus to the control.

However, eventhough the control has focus the cursor is
not flashing so it is unlcear for teh user.

Does anyone know what the probem is here?

Thanks,
Joe.

[Bob Barrows]

Joe wrote:

Hi,

I have a textbox on an asp page.

The text in my textbox is 'MM/DD/YYYY'.

When the user tabs into teh textbox I clear
the 'MM/DD/YYYY' and set focus to the control.

However, eventhough the control has focus the cursor is
not flashing so it is unlcear for teh user.

Does anyone know what the probem is here?

Thanks,
Joe.

This has nothing to do with ASP, which is code that runs on the server, not
in the browser (client-side). In the future, please post your client-side
code questions to one of the newsgroups with "dhtml" in its name, or to
microsoft.public.scripting.jscript.

I cannot answer this question without seeing your code. Please followup to
an appropriate newsgroup and show them your code.

Perhaps you should consider changing the border or background color of the
textbox when it gets focus. You can use the onfocus and onblur events for
this IIRC.

Bob Barrows

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