Question

I have a jquery-ui autocomplete text box and i want to set a default text for the text box and when the text box get focus i want to remove it.

• How do i set the initial text for the text box?
• Ho do i remove the text on focus?

Answer 1

I managed to solve it:

1. set the default text of the autocomplete using the value attribute

2. the only way that i damaged to use the focus event is like this:

   $("SELECTOR").autocomplete({
....
}).focus( function(event, ui) {
......
});