>I have about 5 text boxes on a form. When the form pulls up the setfocus is on text box 1. I have validation code that checks to see if the textbox is empty, if it is, it changes tHE background color to red etc. When I pull up the form and goto the next page (w/o clicking any textboxes but the focus is on the first textbbox), the background is ONLY changed ffor the first text box (which is correct), but I would expect ALL textboxes that failed validation to had red box (even if I dont click on the text box).

You've had a few seemingly related threads lately. I'm not sure of your coding strategy but I'm guessing you might be using validation code attached to the controls themselves (?)

What I usually do in scenarios like this is create a method, something like .AreTextBoxesOK( ) attached to the container which holds all the textboxes. This method tests all the textboxes, changes colours etc.

Then, each textbox has something like this in its .Valid():

=This.Parent.AreTextBoxesOK()
RETURN .T.
* so the user can go to the next field if they want, even if there's an issue with the current textbox value

Users can press Enter to leave a textbox when they're finished editing, or press Tab, or use the mouse. Rather than try to trap all those events individually I just call a parent method such as above when a user has made changes, .Valid() usually works well for that.

If you return a logical value from .AreTextBoxesOK( ) you can use that as part of form validation i.e. don't allow saving if there's a data entry issue. You can also add conveniences such as setting the focus to the first textbox which has an error, if there is one.