Is there a jQuery plugin to display default text in a text box?

Question

When I click on the page, “Search ...” is displayed in the text box, in gray font.

Then I click on the text box. Then the "search ..." disappears. And I can print.

Answer 1

What you are looking for is called the watermark effect. You can find the relevant jQuery plugins here .

Answer 2

This is usually called "default text" and yes, there is a plugin.

JQuery default text plugin

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Answer 3

: http://tholljos.lu/mike/files/watermark.zip

jQuery(selector).watermark('here be text...','cssClass');

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Answer 4

$("textinput_id").focus(function(){
    $(this).text("");
    });

$("textinput_id").blur(function(){
    $(this).text("Search...");
    });