Question

Does any know of a Google Web Toolkit text input widget that would display a message inside the field when it is empty?

E.g. a first name field that would say: ‘enter your first name’ and when the user starts typing the label is removed to show the typed text.

How would you go about this?

Daniel

Answer 1

This does the work for me in a textarea:

yourInputField.getElement().setPropertyString("placeholder", "enter your first name");

I think it is a HTML5 feature.