Validate Event!

Could anyone help me!

I have created an activeX control (which happens to be a cut down text box) which will be displayed on an HTML form in IE5.
What I want to know is does anyone out there know how to fire the validate event (which I have mapped to the text box) from the HTML form. I have set the causes validation property to true so why won't it work?

Validate Event - Occurs before the focus shifts to a (second) control that has its CausesValidation property set to True.

Here is an example from MSDN:
Place 2 text boxes on the form and 1 command button.

Code:

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Private Sub Form_Load()
  ' Set the button's CausesValidation property to False. When the user
  ' clicks the button, the Validate event does not occur.
  ' Set the Caption property of the button to "Help".
  With Command1
      .CausesValidation = False
      .Caption = "Help"
      End With
      Show
  With Text1 ' Select text of Text1 and set focus to it.
      .SelLength = Len(Text1.Text)
      .SetFocus
      End With
End Sub
Private Sub Command1_Click()
    ' Give the user help when the button is clicked.
  MsgBox "Text1 must be set to a date." & vbCrLf & _
                                    "Text2 must be a number less than 10."
End Sub

Private Sub Text1_Validate(KeepFocus As Boolean)
  ' If the value is not a date, keep the focus, unless the user
  ' clicks Help.
    If Not IsDate(Text1.Text) Then
        KeepFocus = True
        MsgBox "Please insert a date in this field.", , "Text1"
    End If
End Sub

  Private Sub Text2_Validate(KeepFocus As Boolean)
  ' If the value is a number larger than 10, keep the focus.
    If Not IsNumeric(Text2.Text) Or Val(Text2.Text) > 10 Then
        KeepFocus = True
        MsgBox "Please insert a number less than or equal to 10.", , "Text2"
    End If
End Sub

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Serge

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Yep I know about the validate event!
But like I said the problem is getting it to fire within a HTML page in IE5!!