Rails spinoffs - May 2007 - focus problem with select list

I have a select list of items and I want to highlight the background
color of the select list when the element gets focus.

I have the following function to simply set the background color of an
object:
function hilite(event)
{
	var obj = Event.element(event);
	if (obj) {
		$(obj).setStyle({backgroundColor: ''#FFFFC8''});
	}
}

Here is the function I call at window load time...
function observeSelectList(el_name)
{
	var el;
	el = $(el_name);
	if (el) {
		Event.observe (el, ''blur'', delite_textbox);
		Event.observe (el, ''keypress'', hilite_textbox);
		Event.observe (el, ''focus'', hilite_textbox);
	}
}


I also do the following on window load for the select list using...

function myload()
{
	initCommon();
	observeSelectList("lanspeed");
}

Event.observe(window, ''load'', myload);

Now, when I include the Event.observe call for the ''focus''
event, I
click in that select list and the background color is correctly
changed.  However, the drop down list does not appear.  If I click on
the element two more times, the drop down list appears.

If I remove the event.observe call for the ''focus'' event, the
select
list drop down appears the first time I click in the select elemet -
like it is supposed to.  Of course, the background color does not
change - which is what I want to do with the Event.observe
''focus''
function.

Any ideas?


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