> The date represents a event that happened in the past that the user has > to type in. > > Currently there are complaints because typing the '\' takes extra time. > I would like to have the '\' > already in place so they can just slam the 8 digits for date. How about that: http://www.onlinetools.org/tests/dateslash.html If there is already a slash in there, it doesn't change it, otherwise it does. However, you'd need to extend the validation to check if it really is 6 characters and all of them are in the right limits and so on, unless you want to do that on the server. -- Chris Heilmann Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com Writing: http://icant.co.uk/ Binaries: http://www.onlinetools.org/