I need to clear the default value from a textarea when a user clicks on the textarea and then replace it if the user clicks away from the textarea without modifying it. I have managed to accomplish this with the textfields in my forms but I am struggling to get the textarea element to mimic this behavior. Here is the script I am using:
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Anyways I have a textarea that I have managed through the magic of google to have the default text clear out with the onfocus and if the textarea is left blank to put the default text back in with onblur. I now have a new problem that is a little CSS and a little JS I suppose. I want the default text in the textarea to be grey and the user submitted text to be black. I know it is possible because... well facebook has it.
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Invite via Email: <br />
<cftextarea name="emails" cols="50" rows="3" value="Separate Emails by Comma" onclick = "if (this.value == 'Separate Emails by Comma') this.value = '';" onblur = "if (this.value == '') this.value = 'Separate Emails by Comma';" ></cftextarea>
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I don't actually have to put the text in the JS Function, but to have it pull the default text from attribute that would be awesome to.
I have some default text paragraphs in Microsoft *.doc format. I would like to populate a HTML textarea with the text paragraphs by clicking a button.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've read a few solutions to this, but none seem to fit what I'd like to do. I'm quite new to JavaScript, so I'm trying to learn various solutions to problems and also what can and can't be done.
What I'd like to know is can you, on submit, check all the form values on a page, or indeed within a specific form on a page, for their default values, and if any still have their default values as the text within that box, clear that value.
So using some generic form values as an example, if I had a form that had three text fields Name, Email, and Phone, all by default populated by their respective names, if someone changed the value of Name to "Adenv" but left the other two, on submit the script would change the values to:
With *blank* indicating a blank field. Is this possible?
How would i change back to the default length of textarea?
I have this comment area that after clicking submit i will append the new comment in the list of comments through ajax... i got one problem though, everything is working perfectly well except for the textarea that won't change back to it's default size...
EXAMPLE:
The problem is that the textareawon't change back to it's default size // let's say that the default size is rows=3
I have a table with numerous textareas that I am able to clear once - the first time the textarea is clicked the default value is cleared and everything is OK.However, at a certain point the user might press a 'Clear' button linked to a function I wrote to reset the values back to the defaults. At this point clicking into the textarea does not clear it.
View 2 Replies View Related$("textarea").val("");Throws an error in IE6: "Could not set the value property.Unspecified Error"But it works fine in all other browsersanother way of clearing a textarea that works in
View 1 Replies View Related$("textarea").val("");Throws an error in IE6:"Could not set the value property. Unspecified Error"But it works fine in all other browsers. another way of clearing a textarea that works inall browsers?I'm using JQuery 1.3.2You have no idea how much I hate IE6 right now!
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've been trying to fix this.
Code below:
This is some of the script that I have and it works well. The story is that I have a drop down list and depending on the selection a different set of text is displayed below the list.
if (Val == "general")
{
document.getElementById('Link0').innerHTML="<font size=2><a Href='http://www.web1.com/'>web 1</a>"
document.getElementById('Link1').innerHTML="<font size=2><a Href='http://www.web2.com/'>web 2</a>"
However when the selection runs this part of the code:-
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The "web 3" text is placed under where the 'Link0' text would have been if there had been some. So basically what I need to do is set the 'Link0' text to nothing and have the 'Link1' text sit in its place. I know I could just put the 'Link1' text in the 'Link0' element but I have other controls on the screen that mean I need to run it as it is.
I am using jQuery AJAX to submit a form. When the data has been validated successfully and processed, I want to clear the form, but I am unsure how. I have been trying to make it work for a few hours now.
I am showing status messages in the container below:
When everything was successful, it looks like this:
And here is the simple code I use to clear the text fields:
What I need is a way to check if everything was successful and if so, then run the code above. I tried to do it in a few ways, but it kept clearing regardless of the status.
I'm currently designing a form with client-side validation using javascript. I've set the input property to display as the value (for example, "your name" inside the name field) and I've set the javascript to clear value using name.focus but everytime I reselect the field to edit the value, it clears again, so I'm trying to make it so that on the 2nd time it get's selected, the nameClear funtion doesn't run.Here's what I've got so far, but it's not working. For some reason, the else statement within the function that runs on .focus is showing as invalid in my debugger, but it looks fine to me.
name.focus(function() {
if(name.val("Your name"))
name.val("");
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I have a list of input fields within the form and a button that can be clicked to add new input fields into the form. This works but if any of the input elements have had text entered into them, then this text is cleared when the button is selected. code...
View 5 Replies View Relatedwhy isn't this working ok in ie7?:
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the javascript is:
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<script type="text/javascript">
/* <![CDATA[ */
function closed_changed(day) {
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it should call closed_changed(), which sees if it's ticked/checked, if it is it calls clear_open() and sets the four open related input elements to empty/blank (because a shop can't be open and closed at the same time). works fine in firefox (pc and mac) and safari. not ie7. why not? (the intended clear does happen but only when another subsequent closed box is ticked; it works on the previous day which was ticked; so it's lagging one behind)
Im trying to nut out a check box validation
The goal- the check box as default is unchecked and when checked validates a text area for text
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i made a tutorial for appearing default text in text fields.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am creating a small CMS module for a client. I created a little form and when they click Submit, it goes straight out into an include (.inc) file, which is connected to the web page to be displayed.
The trouble I am having is that I'd like to create an additional button that will insert some text (certain html tags to make their life easier, etc) - I got it to work, actually. The script executes and the text is inserted - but once the script runs and the page refreshes (or whatever it does), the text then disappears. The only way I can seem to get it to stay put is when I use "onmouseup" instead of "onclick" - which means that every time the user accidentally mouses over the thing, it inserts the text.
how to create a function to validate that the default text hasnt been submitted, Could I somehow put it in with my validateIt function? By using something like document.forms[0].visitor_name.value =="Enter your name"? Or am I way off?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-W3CDTD XHTML 1.0 StrictEN"
"http:www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http:www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
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i am trying to add some guidance text to the login and password fields on my website (similar to that of facebook).I dont want to use the value attribute because users have to delete the original text. I just want the text to disappear when the user clicks in the login box. I was wondering how to achieve this, maybe by using javascript? or is there a much easier way?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have about 60 txt boxes on each page and I need to set a specific box with ID "focusID" to have focus when the page loads.
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<head>
<script language="javascript">
function setfocus(focusID)
{
document.getElementById(focusID).focus();
}
</script>
</head>
<BODY onload="setfocus(ID)">
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any ideas?
You know how there are a dozen ways to have tabs (tab1, tab2, tab3, etc.) that when you click or mouse over them the text in the area below the tabs changes according to each tab?
Well I've been trying to find some code that allows you NOT to have a visible tab1 but still allows you to have the text below it. Essentially it would be the default text on the page, and then when you select a tab, then the text in that space changes to match that tab. but until then its just default text that isn't tied to any tab. Since all the codes seem to employ the Unordered list, there doesn't seem to be a way to have some default text with a corresponding <li> list element (the tab).
Does anyone know of a way to achieve this? I wish I could show you my web page but I'm a newbie and not allow to include URLs in my posts yet.
My code below shows 2 radio buttons, when you click on one, it shows the content from a div, I would like to show the content of the checked radio button by default, at teh moment, they don't show any content until they are clicked!code...
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to change the text from OK to CLOSE on an alert box?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to workout how to show the default value of a text box when you click off it. I have already got the code for the onclick but still working with the offclick.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen a user has entered text into form fields and hits the Save button, the text is saved into local storage. When they hit the Load button at a later date, the text fields are populated.If the user does NOT enter text and hits the Load button, the default empty text fields are populated with the word "undefined." How do I keep the field blank? Because if they do this accidentally, they'll be hitting the back button repeatedly to delete the word in every field (this is on an iPhone).Here is the Load code:
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/*
* Insert data into form fields from local storage.
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I've got a <textarea> and I want to put some default text in it.....easy enough...... but when the user clicks on the box (to put their own text) I want the default text to be highlighted.
How can I get the text highlighted when the user clicks on the textbox area?