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i have a form with many feilds , but out of those i want to make some feilds required and i want without entring data into required feilds person should not move to nex field .

following is my function


[html] function validate_required(field,alerttxt)
{
with (field)
{
if (value==null||value=="")
{
alert(alerttxt);
return false;
}

else {
return true;
}
}

[/html]

the problen is that want to set focus back to field i am checking how to do that ?
Apr 19 '08 #1
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gits
5,390 Expert Mod 4TB
you may use:

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  1. field.focus();
kind regards
Apr 19 '08 #2
Shalini Bhalla
190 100+
i tried but not working
Apr 19 '08 #3
gits
5,390 Expert Mod 4TB
please show the code you have tried ... it should work so may be there is another problem ...

kind regards
Apr 19 '08 #4

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