# onSetFocus vs onKillFocus

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onsetfocus-vs-onkillfocus/233922>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 28, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onsetfocus-vs-onkillfocus/233922 "2007-07-28T02:39:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![ticl4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@ticl4](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ticl4)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onsetfocus-vs-onkillfocus/233922/1 "2007-07-28T02:39:20Z")

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AS2, from an email form for my website:  
instance: from\_txt, var: from

the onKillFocus part works great, the onSetFocus does not. The input text has “your name here” typed in to begin with.

Please Help!

from\_txt.onSetFocus = function() {  
if (from == “your name here”) {  
from = “”;  
}  
};

from\_txt.onKillFocus = function() {  
if (from == “”) {  
from = “your name here”;  
}  
};