onfocus/onblur with <select> tag

greetings,

i have a function that sets the onfocus and onblur event for every item in a table which then tells it to the change the class name. for some reason this doesn't seem to be working with the <select> inputs. i have heard it has something to do with how the option list re-loads itself???

function setTableActivation(){
tableDiv = document.getElementById("tables");
tables = tableDiv.getElementsByTagName("table");
count = tables.length;
for(var h=0;h<count;h++){
var table = tables[h];
table.accessKey = h;
table.onfocus = function(){tables[this.accessKey].className = "activeTable";};
table.onblur = function(){tables[this.accessKey].className = "searchreal";};
for(var i=0;i<table.rows.length;i++){
row = table.rows[i];
row.accessKey = h;
row.onfocus = function(){tables[this.accessKey].className = "activeTable";};
row.onblur = function(){tables[this.accessKey].className = "searchreal";};
for(var j=0;j<table.rows[i].cells.length;j++){
cell = table.rows[i].cells[j];
cell.accessKey = h;
cell.onfocus = function(){tables[this.accessKey].className = "activeTable";};
cell.onblur = function(){tables[this.accessKey].className = "searchreal";};
for (var k = 0; k < cell.childNodes.length; k++) {
if (cell.childNodes[k].nodeType == document.ELEMENT_NODE) {
cell.childNodes[k].accessKey = h;
cell.childNodes[k].onfocus = function(){tables[this.accessKey].className = "activeTable";};
cell.childNodes[k].onblur = function(){tables[this.accessKey].className = "searchreal";};
if(cell.childNodes[k].tagName == "SELECT"){

}

}
}
}
}
}
}

You need to use onchange with selects instead of onblur as the field doesn't lose focus when you set the value

yeah i know i can do that but my problem then is how to check for when the user clicks something else. i don't care what the value of it is