Forms and deleting prewritten text

[xcandiottix]

You know on how some forms, the data entry field already has the title of what you should type there and after you click on that entry field the pre-existing text disappears? How is that done in php?

 

EX:

 

[ enter your name ] <form field with preexisting text

 

on mouse click to start typing in the field:

 

[                            ] <text disappears

 

 

 

If this was flash I would code something like: on mouse click text field "name" = 0

in php i'm not so sure.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated =)

[xcandiottix]

Ah. Java will actually do the trick...

<input name="Name" type="text" onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue){this.value='';}" value="Your Name" size="37" /><br>