because the mouseover event occurs over the whole form as well as the inputs, but the focus event is fired for each input separately.
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Browse All TopicsI want to change the bg color of a text input when it has the focus. Using:
<script language="JavaScript">
function change(color){
var el=event.srcElement
if (el.tagName=="INPUT")
event.srcElement.style.bac
if (el.tagName=="TEXTAREA")
event.srcElement.style.bac
}
</script>
<form onMouseover="change('#cccc
This works when the user puts thier mouse over it, but:
<form onFocus="change('#cccccc')
doesn't work?
Can anyone help. I don't want to have to go thru all my forms to adjust it if I can help it, cheers, Rob.
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well, you can do it to all text inputs and textareas when the page loads ...
function focusChange()
{
change("#cccccc");
}
function blurChange()
{
change("white");
}
function onLoadHandler()
{
for ( i=0,n=document.forms[0].el
if ( document.forms[0].elements
{
document.forms[0].elements
document.forms[0].elements
}
}
<BODY onload='onLoadHandler();'>
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by: knightEknightPosted on 2002-11-11 at 08:48:11ID: 7434331
You'll have to put the onfocus on all the text inputs:
kgroundCol or=color kgroundCol or=color
" onBlur="change('white')"> " onBlur="change('white')"> " onBlur="change('white')">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT language='javascript'>
function change(color)
{
var el=event.srcElement
if (el.tagName=="INPUT")
event.srcElement.style.bac
if (el.tagName=="TEXTAREA")
event.srcElement.style.bac
}
</script>
</head>
<BODY>
<form>
<INPUT type='text' onfocus="change('#cccccc')
<INPUT type='text' onfocus="change('#cccccc')
<INPUT type='text' onfocus="change('#cccccc')
</form>
</body>
</html>