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Clear input field, How to clear text in text field on click?
Zumiic
26 Aug, 2008 - 01:35 AM
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I have a basic input with starting value.

<input type="text" name="topic" value="Enter topic here"/>


wanted to ask how to clear the starting value when user click inside the element. I heard something about onmousedown or onclick or something like that. But tried all kind of ways and no results. Also cant find anything on web.

I know its nothing hard - but i would really aprreciate the help smile.gif

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26 Aug, 2008 - 01:46 AM
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are you sure you have tried online and havent found anything?this question is very simple and i think that you havent tried anythng b4 coming here . try googling set text field to empty after clicking .try googling or give some sample code of what you have done. you would be surprised at the amount of help you might get .
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26 Aug, 2008 - 02:00 AM
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well i got it working with his:

<input type="text" id="topic" name="topic" value="Topic here" onmousedown="document.getElementById('topic').value =''"/>


but when i refresh the same page the text is empty again smile.gif
How to get it back?

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26 Aug, 2008 - 02:46 AM
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QUOTE(Zumiic @ 26 Aug, 2008 - 03:00 AM) *

well i got it working with his:

<input type="text" id="topic" name="topic" value="Topic here" onmousedown="document.getElementById('topic').value =''"/>


but when i refresh the same page the text is empty again smile.gif
How to get it back?


pass the data to the next page using a post or a session or a getvariable and assign the value to it when the page reloads or set the default value of that input to what you want
.read on session ,post and get variables
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26 Aug, 2008 - 02:57 AM
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tnx - the defaultValue works fine smile.gif

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26 Aug, 2008 - 03:14 AM
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tnx - the defaultValue works fine smile.gif


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