Sorry I know this question has probably been asked before, but do you know of any clean ways to style input elements so that the inner text disappears when you click on the input element?
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Sorry I know this question has probably been asked before, but do you know of any clean ways to style input elements so that the inner text disappears when you click on the input element?
You’re talking about using the
placeholderattribute. As of HTML5, this is a default attribute of an input text element.For older browsers that don’t support this, you could use the JQuery Watermark plugin – http://code.google.com/p/jquery-watermark/