function trim(inputString) {
   if (typeof inputString != "string") { return inputString; }
   
   var retValue = inputString;
   var ch = retValue.substring(0, 1);
   
   // Check for spaces at the beginning of the string
   while (ch == ' ') 
   { 
      retValue = retValue.substring(1, retValue.length);
  	  ch = retValue.substring(0, 1);
   }
   
   // Check for spaces at the end of the string
   ch = retValue.substring(retValue.length-1, retValue.length);

   while (ch == ' ') 
   { 
      retValue = retValue.substring(0, retValue.length-1);
      ch = retValue.substring(retValue.length-1, retValue.length);
   }

	// Note that there are two spaces in the string - look for multiple spaces within the string	   
   while (retValue.indexOf('  ') != -1) 
   { 
		retValue = replace(retValue, '  ', ' ');
		// retValue = retValue.substring(0, retValue.indexOf("  ")) + retValue.substring(retValue.indexOf("  ")+1, retValue.length); // Again, there are two spaces in each of the strings
   }
   
   return retValue; // Return the trimmed string back to the user
} 
	
	
function showEdit(name) {
	if(document.getElementById(name).style.display == "none")
		document.getElementById(name).style.display  = "block";
	else document.getElementById(name).style.display = "none";
}

function f_focus(elem, f_text)  {
	if (elem.value==f_text) elem.value='';
}

function f_blur(elem, f_text)  {
	if (elem.value=='') elem.value=f_text;
}