onBlur did the trick! The last number gets added when the user tabs or clicks on the next form element (hopefully they will do that before they notice the total is wrong... its always hard to predict the behavior of us humans). Thanks on behalf of our volunteer tutors & myself :) Thomas McCoy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evolt.org/pipermail/javascript/attachments/20010627/9b4d8d3d/attachment.htm>