>>Am I going crazy here.
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>>If you put a THIS.setfocus() call in the lost focus event of a dropdown/combobox, should that not force the combobox to keep regain focus ?
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>>At the moment it is not ... and I'm sure I have tried this before.
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>>Any comments or suggestions?
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>If you are not using a toolbar, then the above just wasted your time <g> -- and you may want to provide a little more detail.

Actually more a theory question ... how can you force a dropdown box to keep focus without using a NODEFAULT on the keypress <>

Since the dropdown does not fire its valid clause when you exit the field (it fires when you select a value) ... I need to include code in the lostfocus to make sure that the box actually contains a valid value.

This is done by adding some code to the lostfocus that checks if a valid has actually fired for the dropdown ... if it has not then I want to force the combo to keep focus.

Any comments of suggestions ?