# Unable to input colon in textfield

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unable-to-input-colon-in-textfield/297226>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 28, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unable-to-input-colon-in-textfield/297226 "2009-09-28T13:52:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![AndreasCS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@AndreasCS](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/AndreasCS)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unable-to-input-colon-in-textfield/297226/1 "2009-09-28T13:52:11Z")

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Hello forum!

We got a call today from a customer saying she was unable to input colon “:” in a textfield, instead it would turn into a “\>”.

My first thought, since she’s on a PC, was that she probably had switched her keyboard layout from swedish to english which would indeed make the colon turn into a “greater than”. But after some investigation this happened on every pc I tested this on, and outside flash the inputs were correct. I am able to copy-paste a colon into the textfield.

I also tried this on a pc with Windows 7 with a strange outcome. The first input became a “\>”, but after that the colons appeared correctly. After reloading the flash it worked from the first input.

Note: the problem seems limited to Firefox

I hope someone recognizes this and has a solution cause I’m all out of ideas here!