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Change an element's onfocus handler with Javascript?

Hello, I have a form that has default values describing what should go into the field (replacing a label). When the user focuses a field this function is called: function clear_input(element) { element.value = ""; element.onfocus = null; } The onfocus is set to null so that if the user puts something in the field and decides ...

Javascript On blur event

I've got the following code: <span style="margin:0px 2px 0px 2px;"> <asp:Label ID="labelPromptText" runat="server" Text="Selected Location:" /> <span id="spanSelectedLocation" style="padding:2px 2px 2px 2px; cursor:pointer;" onmouseover="javascript:SetBackgroundColor('spanSelectedLocation', '#E0E0E0');" onmouseout="javascript:Se...

Self-closing popups in IE -- how to get proper onBlur behavior?

I want a transient window to close itself when the user clicks away from it. This works for Firefox: var w = window.open(...); dojo.connect(w, "onblur", w, "close"); but it doesn't seem to work in Internet Explorer. Some other sites made reference to an IE-specific "onfocusout" event, but I couldn't find a coherent working example of ...

JavaScript OnBlur event prevents HTML form from being submitted

Consider the following form: <form action="/a" method="post"> <input name="x" type="text" onblur="myonblur(e)" /> <input name="y" type="text" /> <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit" /> </form> When focus is on element with name "x" and user presses submit button, onblur event fires but form is NOT submitted. ...

How do I invoke the IE 'onblur' event from VBA code in Excel?

Situation: I am working to populate text entry boxes in a webpage with data from Excel. When the data is entered manually and the focus is moved to another text box, the 'onblur' event is fired to do input validation. Desire: I want to be able to cause the 'onblur' event to be fired when I populate the same text boxes from VBA code ...

Problem with triggering an Ajax POST on the onblur() event

I have an Ajax problem. There is an input field and I want to submit the changed value on the onblur() event. It all works fine except that there is an irritating flicker. I type in the new value and click away. The old value then flashes back before the value changes to the new value... This is how I am doing it. I attach an onblur f...

jQuery - window focus, blur events not triggering - works in Firefox and Chrome

In a nutshell; I wrote a simplistic chat application for a buddy and me to use. When the window running the application does not have the focus (minimized or behind other windows) and a message comes in, I want to change the windows title bar to serve as an alert. Exactly like Google's chat application does in GMail. Everything works f...

Blur Event Does not get Fired in IE7 and IE6

I have a dropdown Menu where in a div is clicked and List is shown. On focus out I am supposed to hide the list(i.e. when the user clicks or focuses on some other element and not on mouse out) Hence my obvious choice was 'onblur' . Now the javascript seems to work in firefox but not in IE thats because my div has a sub div with a hei...

Cannot get Javascript function to fire from a textbox in a gridview

Hey all I have a textbox in the ItemTemplate of a Gridview. On the _RowDataBound event I add an attribute to the textbox like so: TextBox txtQuantity = (TextBox)e.Row.FindControl("txtQuantity"); txtQuantity.Attributes.Add("onkeypress", "CheckInputForNumeric(event)"); And it simply will not fire a JS function. I've tried doing onCli...

onfocus & onblur not working in IE

Hi, I've wrote some code that will allow me to have some greyed out text on an input form, and when the user focuses on it, the text will disappear and become ungreyed out, if that makes sense... function editableAlt (elem, colour1, colour2) { var elem = document.getElementById(elem); elem.onfocus = function () { if(this.v...

Div onblur event called when clicking checkbox inside div

I have a popup div and want to hide it when users click outside of the div. Inside the div, I have a checkbox... Problem is, the div's onblur event gets fired when trying to click on the checkbox. I put cancelEventBubble code on the onclick of the checkbox but the onblur fires before the checkbox onclick event... any ideas or suggestio...

Event bubbling and the onblur event

I'm writing a form validation script and would like to validate a given field when its onblur event fires. I would also like to use event bubbling so i don't have to attach an onblur event to each individual form field. Unfortunately, the onblur event doesn't bubble. Just wondering if anyone knows of an elegant solution that can produce ...

html onchange /onblur compatibility

I am currently writing a web site which must be compatible with all browsers including IE back to version 6. I was wondering about compatibility issues with these two events in particular: I am using them with a input tag with type 'text'. OnBlur OnChange Searching has found mixed responses and an incomplete list. Specifically, the...

JQuery focus/blur events help

$(document).ready(function() { $('#username').focus(function() { $(this).val(''); }) $('#username').blur(function() { var l = $(this).val.length; if (l == 0) { $(this).val('Username'); } }) }); What the above code is supposed to do is empty the value of #username input field...

Problem with jquery blur() event on Div element

I have problem hiding certain popup wich are based on divs. when i click out side those divs they dont hid. Here is the sample code what i m doing.. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; <head> <title...

Submit ajax onblur

I'm still new to ajax and javascript, so my apologies for missing something probably very basic and upfront. I'm trying to submit an form onblur. I'm calling the function correctly, but I'm not sure how to reference the variables from the form. When I move from the form, I see in Firebug that it's calling the addNotes.php file, but no ...

How to use firebug when debugging Javascript entailing focus/blur event handling

I'm trying to use Firebug to debug some Javascript that entails blur and focus event handling, specifically some auto-complete/look-ahead functionality. The issue is that, merely by clicking on the various tabs within Firebug, such as "Console", "Script", "DOM", etcetera, the blur() event in my application is being fired, and then the f...

value set by javascript is not saved in asp.net

hi, i am having two textboxes and a label in a gridview control, i am adding a javascript function to the second textbox onblur event attribute and display the result in the label, the function works fine and result is displayed in the label, but when i am saving the grid data into the database, the label is returned 0 or empty, but i am...

Clicking on swf fires onBlur-Event in Chrome?

Hello everyone! I am facing a rather strange problem right now. I have a site using popup-windows and need to know about their current focus. This works rather fine and as expected, except for one situation: Using Google Chrome it looks like an open window will fire an onBlur-Event (lose its focus) when you click on an swf that is conta...

How can I check value is changed on blur event?

Hi, Basically I need to check if the value is changed in a textbox on the 'blur' event so that if the value is not changed, I want to cancel the blur event. If it possible to check it the value is changed by user on the blur event of an input HTML element? Thanks, ...