[Ryan75]

When users come to a login page, many times if they click in a form box (ex. username), they will get a browser dropdown history box of the data previously typed.

The problem I'm running into is if a user just types in their username, the javascript code (onkeyup) runs and my login button activates. if that user clicks on a name in the history dropbox, the javascript code doesn't execute and the login button stays grayed out. The user has to type at least one thing in the box to run the script.

I've checked blured, but then with that, the user basically has to click somewhere on the window first to activate the button, which looks silly to me.

Is there an event that runs when a user selects an item from the history drop box?

I've tried, onclick, onblur, onchange, onkeyup already.

[dgreenhouse]

Yep, that's a hard one.

Don't know if you'll be able to solve that since it's the browser that's remembering the
name of the input element from previously saved values.

It could possibly be done in FireFox; and others, but you'd have no control over the
internals of the user's browser (except in a corporate environment); so that's moot!

I think you'll have to inform the user in some way (via text) that they'll need to use
the tab or enter key after selecting a value from the history drop down.

Something like (when onfocus() fires, add similar text near the element):
"Press 'Tab' or 'Enter' after entering your username"

When the JavaScript runs after the user enters information
(onkeyup(), onchange() or {tab or enter}), you could remove the help text from the
screen. If it doesn't fire, the text is there to remind them of what to do.

Wow! Who would've thought we'd be back to the old days.