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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">onblur</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">2</span> IE <span class="emphasis">3</span> DOM <span class="emphasis">2</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Bubbles: No; Cancelable: No&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>Fires after the current element loses focus (due to some other
element receiving focus) or invoking the <span class="literal">blur( )</span>
method of the current element. The <span class="literal">onblur</span> event
fires before the <span class="literal">onfocus</span> event in the other
element.
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="CLEARSEPARATION">&nbsp;</td>
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							<td colspan="2"><p>			Avoid using the <span class="literal">onblur</span> event in text input fields
to trigger form validation, especially if the validation routine
displays an alert dialog box upon discovering an error. Interaction
among the <span class="literal">onblur</span> and <span class="literal">onfocus</span>
events, along with the display and hiding of an alert dialog box can
put you into an infinite loop. Use <span class="literal">onchange</span>
instead.
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							<td colspan="2"><p>			Although the <span class="literal">onblur</span> event has been supported for
form controls and <span class="literal">window</span> objects since the early
days of scriptable browsers, modern browsers can fire the event on
virtually any other rendered element, provided the
<span class="literal">tabindex</span> attribute is set for the element. Note
that IE for Windows is known to omit firing the
<span class="literal">onblur</span> event on <span class="literal">window</span> objects.
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="typicaltargets"><span class="title">Typical Targets</span></td>
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			For all browsers, <span class="literal">input</span> (of type text and
password), <span class="literal">textarea</span>, <span class="literal">select</span>,
and <span class="literal">window</span> objects; for IE 5 or later and Netscape
6, add any rendered element for which the <span class="literal">tabindex</span>
attribute is assigned a value.
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