var highlightcolor="lightyellow"

var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all
var previous=''
var eventobj

//Regular expression to highlight only form elements
var intended=/INPUT|TEXTAREA|SELECT|OPTION/

//Function to check whether element clicked is form element
function checkel(which){
if (which.style&&intended.test(which.tagName)){
if (ns6&&eventobj.nodeType==3)
eventobj=eventobj.parentNode.parentNode
return true
}
else
return false
}

//Function to highlight form element
function highlight(e){
eventobj=ns6? e.target : event.srcElement
if (previous!=''){
if (checkel(previous))
previous.style.backgroundColor=''
previous=eventobj
if (checkel(eventobj))
eventobj.style.backgroundColor=highlightcolor
}
else{
if (checkel(eventobj))
eventobj.style.backgroundColor=highlightcolor
previous=eventobj
}
}



var flashcolor="red"
var flashinterval=1000 //flash interval in miliseconds (1000=1 sec)

var formcollect=document.getElementsByTagName? document.getElementsByTagName("FORM") : document.all? document.all.tags("FORM") : new Array()
var flashcollect=new Array()

for (i=0; i<formcollect.length; i++){
for (e=0; e<formcollect[i].elements.length; e++){
if (formcollect[i].elements[e].className=="flashit")
flashcollect[flashcollect.length]=formcollect[i].elements[e]
}
}

function flashelements(){
for (f=0; f<flashcollect.length; f++){
if (flashcollect[f].style.color=='')
flashcollect[f].style.color=flashcolor
else
flashcollect[f].style.color=""
}
}

if (flashcollect.length>0)
setInterval("flashelements()",flashinterval)