Well, it appears to be pretty straight forward.  Yet...it doesn't work.Here's a sample form I just made using the code from Cameron's article to change the color of the Content Extent fill.  The code was placed in the Name field's initialize event.  Also tried in the form's initialize and docReady e...

Tried that as well, in both the form1 docReady and Initialize, and no luck.  There has so be a way to do this.

Yes, I read the article first, which is where I got the syntax from in the original post.

I tried using the docReady event, but get the same results.  The field color is light blue when the form opens, but only changes to green once you click on the field.

OK, but how do I change the color of the field when the form opens.  That's the part that is not working.  Please see the original post.Thanks

I have a few text fields that I want to set the background, or fill color to a different color when the form opens.  I want these fields (not the captions) to stand out from the others, rather than making them required fields.I tried this method with JavaScript in the field's initialize event, but t...

Radzmar,I got it working.  My fault.  I did not adjust the date format to match the display format of the First_Day date field.Thanks again!

Radzmar,Thanks for the reply.  I tried your suggestion, but it doesn't work quite right.  I selected 8/20/15 as the date in the First_Day field, which is a Thursday.  In the screen shot below, you can see that the script started with Monday, and it started with the second field, instead of the first...

Karan,Your solution works great!Thank you very much for taking the time and effort to help me resolve this challenge.  That's exactly what I needed.Dean

Hi Radzmar,I always enjoy and learn from your posts!I have a slight twist to the day of week issue that you resolved above.  I have a date field called "First_Day", and seven text fields, one for each day of the week.  I can get the above to work on the first text field, but what I want to do is cha...