Question

I have a form that uses a servlet I don’t have access to for validation. The powers that be want the field to be prefilled with a value “Enter promotion code” – unfortunately, since placeholder doesn’t work with IE, the field is going through the validation process on submit for the default text.

Is there a way to clear the value on that field if the value equals the default text when the form is submitted? (jquery or javascript)

thanks!

Answer 1

You should toss this somewhere on load.
If you aren’t using jQuery on the page yet, it’ll look like this:

$(function() {
    // when the submit button is pressed
    $('#yourForm').submit(function() {
        if($('#yourInputBox').val() == YOUR_DEFAULT_STRING)
            $('#yourInputBox').val(''); // clear the value
        return true; // submit the form
    });
});