How do I make the text disappear like the way some fields work here on stackoverflow once I start putting in text? I tried out the different ‘on’-actions in HTML but that didn’t really do what I wanted.
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How do I make the text disappear like the way some fields work here on stackoverflow once I start putting in text? I tried out the different ‘on’-actions in HTML but that didn’t really do what I wanted.
Thanks.
You can do it with onfocus/onblur events. For example:
If you click on this input field, the default text “search” will disappear. The onfocus event handler checks if this input field has the value of “search” and if so then clears it, in other cases (user has already typed something in) leaves everything as is.