URGENT! java script validation using onBlur

[ramu av]

URGENT! java script validation using onBlur
hello evy body,
the following code is to vakidate text boxes immediately as their focus is lost onChange is not the solution i'm looking for. the following code is ending up in a loop. please analyse this help me out.
thanx in advance.
ramu
im not able to post you the html code please bear with me.

        <script LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function j()
{
var jobcode="";
jobcode=document.form1.job_code.value;
if(jobcode=="")
 { alert("please fill in text1");
  document.form1.job_code.focus();
  return true;
 }
}
function f()
{
var fnam="";
fnam=document.form1.fname.value;
if(fnam=="")
 { alert("please fill in text2");
  document.form1.fname.focus();
  return false;
 }
}
function m()
{
var mnam="";
mnam=document.form1.mname.value;
if(mnam=="")
   { alert("please fill in text3");
  document.form1.mname.focus();
  return false;
 }
}
function check()
{var job=true;
 job=j();
 if(job==false)
  return false;
var fn=true;
 fn=f();
 if(fn==false)
  return false;
var mn=true;
 mn=m();
 if(mn==false)
  return false;
}
</script>
        <p> </p>
        <p> </td>
    </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

[John Hembree]

obviously we don't have the html to see how it's written, so with that in mind...
It looks like your onBlur events will be fighting with your code in your check function. Each function j,f,m have commmands to set the focus in their respective textbox, then check comes along and cycles thru each function, as check calls j which sets the focus to j textbox, check moves to f, which if false sets focus to f textbox, which fires j onblur event, do you see what I mean.
I would either remove the check function since you should never need to check them if your checking them before you leave individually or comment the setfocus lines in j,f,m so that they don't fight with check function.

[Eric Pascarello]

Well in your first function you are returning true when you want it to be false.
The reason why is you are never reassigning true to the values. You need an else statement that returns true.
And instead of doing if(blah == false), I would just do
if (!blah)

You might want to be interested in my validation project I am working on. It is still in the works, but whould have a very good version up soon. It is still in testing. Link is in my signature.
Eric