Posted by The Eclectic Electric on 10/30/06 14:21

"Silkster" <darren@shopcreator.com> wrote in message
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> Hi everyone...Hope you can help me...
>
> I have quiet a few forms to create soon and Iam not totaly up on
> them...
> What I would link to to do is instead of having the <lable> then the
> <input>
> is just have the form field with the instructions in side eg:
> [__Enter Your First Name Here_____]
> and when the user click in the filed the text disapears.
>
> I know this can be done with javascript and the ecomerce site I am
> doing needs to have javascript switched on
>
> But what do I do with the lable field?
> and what impact does the senarion have on accessability?
>

If they're all text inputs then could you not use the value attribute to
enter the instructions within the input? Of course, it wouldn't disappear
when they clicked it (could make it do that with JS for those with it
enabled) and you could end up with them posting your labels back at you.

+e

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