Question

I am in search for a good jQuery watermark plugin that work with ASP.NET and found here and downloaded it and included in the head portion

<script src="js/jquery.watermark.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

I have login and signup on same page and referencing them as:

 <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function () {
            $("#<%= (Login1.FindControl("UserName")).ClientID %>").watermark("Enter your Username");
            $("#<%= (Login1.FindControl("Password")).ClientID %>").watermark("Enter your Password");
            $("#<%= (CreateUserWizard1.CreateUserStep.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("UserName")).ClientID %>").watermark("Enter your Username");
            $("#<%= (CreateUserWizard1.CreateUserStep.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("Password")).ClientID %>").watermark("Enter your Password");
            $("#<%= (CreateUserWizard1.CreateUserStep.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("ConfirmPassword")).ClientID %>").watermark("Enter your ConfirmPassword");
            $("#<%= (CreateUserWizard1.CreateUserStep.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("Email")).ClientID %>").watermark("Enter your Email");
        });
    </script>

Now the problem is the watermark is showing very well for all the textboxes.If I try to login then the page will be doing postback then all the watermark from the textboxes disappears.

So what do I need to do in order not to remove all of them even though there is a postback.

Answer 1

You can try this simple trick

<input type="text" value="Enter keyword here" 
 onfocus="if(this.value=='Enter keyword here'){this.value=''}" 
onblur="if(this.value==''){this.value='Enter keyword here'}" />

Or You can try HTML 5 placeholder

<input type="text" name="first_name" placeholder="Your first name...">