Thank you both for your responses. It's nice to get help. I agree with you on the alert being annoying, so I will put a error message out on the screen instead of an alert, time permitting (I'm under the gun)
The defer did not work I got a javascript error saying this.focus is not a function. However, the setTimeout did work Maurice --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
