Messages which go away once you click on the etxtbox

[theprof]

Hi! I'm trying to do something like what sitepoint did on the main page. I need a textbox, with a message "Subscribe Here" in it. But when people click on it, the messages go away and you can insert your email address normally.

I looked at sitepoints code, and got this.

<input type=text name=email size=10 style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial; font-size: 8pt; width=85" onFocus=this.value='' value="SUBSCRIBE!">


My code right now looks like this:

<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="subject" VALUE="$subject" SIZE=40 MAXLENGTH=85>

How do I do that?

[theprof]

Can this be done for textareas as well?

[duckie]

Didn't know there were any other Singaporean in this forum.

Anyway, the key is this:

onFocus=this.value=''

Use this as an attribute of your text box.

I don't know if this can be used for textarea.