Clever forms

[Wimnat]

In an html form sometimes you get writing already in the form in the text box, for example "search here". When you click on it the writing disappears and you type in an empty box.

Anybody know how to do this?

 

[robmiller]

<input type="text" name="foo" id="foo" value="Search" onfocus="this.value = ( this.value == 'Search' ) ? '' : this.value;" onblur="this.value = ( this.value == '' ) ? 'Search' : this.value" />

(Much better ways of doing this, but this works fine. Replace all instances of "Search" with what you'd like the text to be.