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}
}
Chapter 9 ✦ Text-Related Form Objects (Chapter 25)
setTimeout(“doSelection(document.” + formName + “. “ + fldName + “)”, 0)
function doSelection(fld) {
fld.focus()
fld.select()
}
Enter any positive integer:
Event handlers
onBlur
onFocus
onSelect
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Example
To demonstrate one of these event handlers, Listing 25-5 shows how you may
use the window’s statusbar as a prompt message area after a user activates any
field of a form. When the user tabs to or clicks on a field, the prompt message associated
with that field appears in the statusbar. In Figure 9-1, the user has tabbed to
the second text box, which caused the statusbar message to display a prompt for
the field.
Listing 25-5: The onFocus event Handler
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document.formObject.textObject.onBlur