Add a watermark to your form elements – the jQuery way
So you have a text box and you want a default text on it acting as a call to action. When the user focuses on the text box, the default text should go away (and its styling could change, too). What you need is jQuery and this little snippet.
The only thing you need to add to you form is a title attribute:
<form id="search">
<input type="text" title="Type to search" />
</form>
Now in your JavaScript file:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#search").watermark();
});
And if you want to make it look prettier:
input.watermark { color: #888; }
Or, clone the repo and try the example.
You can grab the file directly from http://github.com/citrusbyte/jquery-watermark, or
$ git clone git://github.com/citrusbyte/jquery-watermark.git
...and pick it from there. Make sure it's required after jquery and jquery-ui.
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