I found someting that works for me. I capture the change event for the form element using: onChange=”StatusChange(this)”. From there:

var lEl = html_GetElement(nd);

lEl.disabled = true; //or false – if needed.
lEl.style.background = ‘#cccccc’;

Hope that helps.

Steve

My siutation is a little different and I’m pulling my hair out over what should not be “rocket-surgery”…

I have a tabular form with a select list. If the value from the database for this item is a cetain value, I want to change the font and background colors so it’s easily noticed.

Any ideas?

Any help sincerely appreciated!

Thanks – Steve

Thanks for the great post.

I tried it and it worked, but it’s not really what I wanted to do. I want the select list to change color after my selection. In my case it should turn (or stay) red if a user does not make a selection.

In my project a field should turn red if there is no entry. I solved this problem for a textfield by importing a javascript. It does not seem to work on selectlists.

Please advise..

If it wasn’t for IE almost anybody could do this javascript stuff way too easily.

But thanks to MS I’m guaranteed a job for quite awhile

Carl

Also make sure you know the stupid IE feature/BUG

http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=11933:129

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Except for background-color and color, style settings applied through the style object for the option element are ignored.
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Carl