How to operate with onfocus ?

Question

Guys,

I have a textbox.

Now when the page is opened i want the textbox to have a default value.Once he click on the textbox the value should disappear and again when he removes his cursor from the text box ,the old value should come back.

So how do i do this ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Can you use jQuery?

If you can there are a lot of plugins that will help with this.

such as;

http://www.jason-palmer.com/2008/08/jquery-plugin-form-field-default-value/

Answer 2

Add a specific class to all textboxes on the page that you want to have this functionality.

Then, use this code to apply the functionality to the elements that have the class:

window.onload = function() {
   var elements = document.querySelectorAll('.yourClassName');
   for(var i = 0, j = elements.length; i < j; i++) {
      var element = elements[i]; 
      element.onfocus = function() {
         this.value = '';
         this.style.color = 'black';
      };
      element.onblur = function() {
          if(this.value == '') {
             this.value = this.getAttribute('defaultValue');
             this.style.color = 'grey';
          }
      };
      element.onblur();
   }
};
​

Working example: http://jsfiddle.net/6TmGA/1/

Answer 3

function setFocus() { document.getElementById('username').focus(); }