making text field text disapear

Phixon · #1 Jan 17th, 2008, 13:04

Adding a contact form to my website, but I would like to put some text in the fields before hand, which auto deletes when you click in it. I can get the text in, but no way of it disappearing. I am using dreamweaver

karinne · #2 Jan 17th, 2008, 13:14

You'll need Javascript for that ... I'm assuming something in the the onfocus() event.

I'll move this over for you

rrrrutdk · #3 Jan 21st, 2008, 04:21

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<input type="text" value="keywords" onfocus="disappear(this);" />
<script type="text/javascript">
 
</script>

rrrrutdk · #4 Jan 21st, 2008, 04:22

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<input type="text" value="keywords" onfocus="disappear(this);" onblur="showKeywords(this)" />
<script type="text/javascript">
    function disappera(input) {
        if (input.value == "keywords") {
            input.value = "";
        }
    }
 
    function showKeywords(input) {
        if (input.value == "") {
            input.value = "keywords";
        }
    }
</script>

catalystmediastudios · #5 Feb 2nd, 2008, 07:49

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/m...oreaccessible/ is a great article on making compact forms. That might be what you want.

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