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why is it that when i try to put this within my login username input form (in lib_common.php): infocus="if(this.value=='name:')this.value='';" ... it causes a parse error?

Depending on where exactly you tried to add that piece of quote (can you give or quote the exact line?), you need to escape the single ' or double " quotes. bye, Dirk

Perhaps you should move the semicolon to the very end of the statement?

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L. Whitworth

Don't know how readable this will be, but here's the code I'm using: (if you'd like to check your own, it's lines 1191-1196 of lib_common.php) $retval .= COM_startBlock($LANG01[47]) . '<p align="right"><form action="' . $_CONF['site_url'] . '/users.php" method="post">' . LB . '<input type="text" size="10" name="loginname" value="' . $LANG01[21] . '" infocus="' . if(this.value=="name:"this.value=""; . '">' . LB . '<input type="password" size="9" name="passwd" value="asdfas"><br>' . LB . "$LANG01[59] " . '<input type="submit" value="' . $LANG01[58] . '"></form></p>' . COM_endBlock(COM_getBlockTemplate('user_block', 'footer')); Of course, the troublemaking part is this: infocus="' . if(this.value=="name:"this.value=""; . '">' . LB that's my attempt to 'escape out' of the php. i assume i'm missing something though because this isn't working either.

yep \' did it