JavaScript help (simple)

Hmmm, your code doesn't look bad and I wonder why it doesn't work.
I have a suggestion though; insteading of passing the object's id with this.id you could simplify the code by doing this instead:

............
function focusEvent(this, base) {
if (base == undefined) this.value = '';
else this.value = base;
}
.......

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Hi,

I don't think there's an eventhandler called "onfocusout" -- the one you're looking for is onblur, which is called when the input field loses focus.

Cheers

EDIT:
Onfocusout is only compatible with IE6+ and none of the other mainstream browsers.

Onblur works (at least minimally) across all mainstream browsers.

Check out http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/events/index.html for eventhandler compatibility lists -- or if you use aptana, when you write eventhandlers, it'll show you want browsers it generally works with.