Question

Firefox (and probably other browsers) want to keep whatever text the user entered in the text input, even after a reload. Just including the default text (that I want the input to revert to) in the html doesn’t work:

<input tyep='text' value='default text' />

And neither does trying to use JS

window.onload = function() {document.getElementById("mytextinput").value = 'default text'}

Answer 1

You can use plain old HTML 🙂

Set autocomplete='off' in the attribute

<input type='text' value='default text' autocomplete='off' />

This works on most modern browsers.