Posted by timothy.pollard on 09/01/06 13:30

Hi all

I've created a form where the form element and text styling is done by
css. I've also set an initial value in my html which clears when you
click in the box - so NAME appears in the form element where name goes,
but this clears as soon as you click in it. Everything is fine except I
want the initial value (NAME) to be in light grey but the text the user
types in once the initial value has cleared to be black (e.g. Tim
Pollard). I've seen this done on other sites, but can't figure out how
to do it.

Anybody know?

Here's my style css for the text boxes:

..blueform {

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 8px;
color: #96969A;
border: 1px solid #7882b8;
}

Here's a typical html form element:

<input name="EmlSubj" type="text" class="blueform" id="EmlSubj"
value="SUBJECT" size="36" ONFOCUS="clearDefault(this)">

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

TP

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