Question

I want to clear my default value in two input fields before submitting them.
But this don’t work…

<form action="page.html" id="myForm">
    <input type="text" value="Firstname" name="firstname" id="firstname">
    <input type="text" value="Lastname" name="lastname" id="lastname">
    <input type="submit">
</form>

<script>
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $("myForm").submit(function() {
            if($('#firstname').val() == "Firstname")
                $('#firstname').val() = "";

            if($('#lastname').val() == "Lastname")
                $('#lastname').val() = "";

            return true;    
        });
    });
</script>

I don’t want to clear them both on focus.
I cant use html5.

Answer 1

val is a function, you can’t use it like this.
Try instead :

$('#firstname').val('');
....