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Asked: 2026-05-28T00:02:35+00:00

I have two things i want to do to this input text field. <input

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I have two things i want to do to this input text field.

<input type="text" value="email@abc.com" name="Email" id="Email"
 onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'email@abc.com';}"
 onfocus="if (this.value == 'email@abc.com') {this.value = '';}" />

The initial value is set to “email@abc.com” but i want to change the text color to a grey only if they have not typed in the text field.

I also have the problem of different browsers having dropdown menues of words the user has typed in other input fields on other websites. how can i clear the list the browser generates?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Regarding auto-population, have a look at How do you disable browser Autocomplete on web form field / input tag?

    With regards to a “watermark”, I would suggest (if you’re not opposed to jQuery) placeholder plugin (However I’m sure there are a lot of options if you google “placeholder”, “watermark” and “html” (or any combination thereof))

    As an aside, I would keep the formatting in a set of <script> tags and leave the markup on its own. Markup should be markup; javascript should supplement that separately and not in-line with the tags)

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