Hi, I thought I'd share this with you. If you want all fields on a web form to be emptied of ther initial value (if any) on focus and filled again with the initial value on blur. Works with jquery.
Empty text boxes on focus if they have an initial value
$(document).ready(function () {
// saves the initial value of all text fields
$(':text').each(function () {
$(this).attr('initialvalue', $(this).val());
});
// on focus, empty the field if it has the initial value
$(":text").focus(function () {
if ( $(this).attr('initialvalue') == $(this).val() ) $(this).val('');
})
// on blur, do the reverse if the field is empty
$(":text").blur(function () {
if ($(this).val() == '') $(this).val($(this).attr('initialvalue'));
})
});
JJenZz
36
Newbie Poster
This can be done more simply as follows (although some may find harder to understand):
$(document).ready(function () {
$(':text').on('blur focus', function (e) {
var values = ['', this.defaultValue],
isFocus = (e.type === 'focus');
if (this.value === values[isFocus*1]) {
this.value = values[!isFocus*1];
}
});
});
I guess the main benefit here being that you don't need to do your initialvalue stuff since there is already a native defaultValue for this.
Luckychap
commented:
Nice
+6
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