Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to get my form to automatically delete the default contents when the user clicks on that field.

I'm can enter some scripting in the javascript onblur, but just don't know what to put in there to make this work.

Basically, the form puts by default an example, and I've been getting form submits with the example text still in place. I'd like for that text to clear itself when the user clicks on that particular form field.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

EDIT: Wait; is the onblur event after a user leaves the field or when they go into it?

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Steve Castaneda, Realtor
Keller Williams Realty
The MyHomeHouston Team

Specializing in Houston Real Estate. Feel free to visit my Houston Real Estate Blog or read about Real Estate Technology for agents.

I got it to work! I used this code:

if(this.value=='original_text') this.value='';

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I replaced "original_text" with what the default values were, and now they clear if the user leaves that field alone without changing it.

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Steve Castaneda, Realtor
Keller Williams Realty
The MyHomeHouston Team

Specializing in Houston Real Estate. Feel free to visit my Houston Real Estate Blog or read about Real Estate Technology for agents.

Focus is when an element gains the input and blur is when it loses it. So when you click in a text box and the insertion point appears, it has been focused. When you tab or click out of that text box, it has lost focus or "blurred".

onfocus is what you're looking for, not onblur.

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Fergus Gibson
realestatewebmasters.com

Right; I failed to mention that the form component I'm using doesn't allow me to customize the onfocus; just onblur. No clue as to why.

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Steve Castaneda, Realtor
Keller Williams Realty
The MyHomeHouston Team

Specializing in Houston Real Estate. Feel free to visit my Houston Real Estate Blog or read about Real Estate Technology for agents.

Off the top of my head, I'd say all form elements have onfocus events.

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Fergus Gibson
realestatewebmasters.com

I'm sure they do; it's just I'm using Joomla, and a Phil-A-Form component that allows back-end administration to create forms. Unfortunately, his software won't allow you to edit the onfocus.

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Steve Castaneda, Realtor
Keller Williams Realty
The MyHomeHouston Team

Specializing in Houston Real Estate. Feel free to visit my Houston Real Estate Blog or read about Real Estate Technology for agents.

Try the ChronoForm extension -- it's pretty flexible, and may allow you to do what you need.

Thanks. I'll surely give that a go really soon. The biggest pain will be moving all my forms over, but I think if Chronoforms works like it says it does, I can just copy over the source code.

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Steve Castaneda, Realtor
Keller Williams Realty
The MyHomeHouston Team

Specializing in Houston Real Estate. Feel free to visit my Houston Real Estate Blog or read about Real Estate Technology for agents.