Try it onBlur event. It might work.
Arghya


>From: "Donald Soar" <donald_soar@m...>
>Reply-To: "javascript" <javascript@p...>
>To: "javascript" <javascript@p...>
>Subject: [javascript] Re: setting focus to form control after validating
>Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 19:12:02 -0600
>
>docoment.all.controlName.focus()
>                     or
>document.formName.inputFieldName.focus()
>
>This seems to work for me.
>I hope it helps you!
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Don Woo
>Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 6:31 PM
>To: javascript
>Subject: [javascript] setting focus to form control after validating
>
>
>After validating a form control, I would like to reset the focus to the
>control if the input is invalid. I tried using the code below, but it
>doesn't work.
>
>        document.Params.ParamInput[i-1].focus;
>        (document.form.controlarray)
>
>The validating code is called from the controls onchange event.
>
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