textbox focus out

Question

I need to focus out from the textbox when it focus in.

I try to set focus for outer div and its working fine in IE but not in mozilla.

How do I do this?

This is my current code:

<div id="outer"> <input type = "textbox" /></div> Onfocus: document.getElementById("outer").focus()

Answer 1

I wonder what's the purpose of using a textbox in this case if the user can never write anything inside. Just add a disabled="disabled" attribute or readonly="readonly" (in case you want to post the value).

Answer 2

In HTML:

<input type="text" onfocus="this.blur();" />

In JS:

document.getElementById("input1").onfocus = function () { this.blur(); }

Some elements cannot accept focus without being editable.