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Oct 29, 2007, 04:39 #1
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onlick delete value
Hi Guys,
i have a textarea with a default value. when it is clicked the default value clears, but when it is left blank i want it to reset to the default value again, unless the end user types somthing.
at the moment i am using onclick="this.value=' ' "
but its not enough for what i want to do.
thanks
dug
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Oct 29, 2007, 05:05 #2
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Code javascript:window.onload = function (){ var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName ('input'); var textareas = document.getElementsByTagName ('textarea'); toggleIt (inputs); toggleIt (textareas); } function toggleIt (collection){ for (var i=0,j; j = collection[i]; i++){ if (j.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'textarea' || (j.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'input' && j.getAttribute ('type')=='text')){ if (j.value.length != 0){ j.__DEFAULTVALUE__ = j.value; j.onfocus = function (){ if (this.value === this.__DEFAULTVALUE__){ this.value = ''; } return false; } j.onblur = function (){ if (this.value.length == 0){ this.value = this.__DEFAULTVALUE__; } return false; } } else continue; } } }
You can use this script.
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Oct 29, 2007, 05:13 #3
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