Hi,

I dont know how to display a message on focus .HELP?

This is giving a error message and not working.


<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
msg.innerHTML = 'Default text';
//-->
</script>



<input type="text" name="name" size="20"
onfocus="msg.innerHTML='Please write your name here.'"
onblur="msg.innerHTML=''">

more a javascript question but;

you are doing things absolutely the wrong way around

the way your code is setup what would happen (if it worked) it would clear the text that the user had just entered when they exited the text field and each time the user clicked into the text box their text would be replaced with the default.

<input type="text" name="name" id="id" value="Type your name here" onFocus="this.select()">

This would select the existing text in the field

you are looking for something like this??

<input type="text" name="enter_name" value="enter your name here" onfocus="if (this.value == 'enter your name here') this.value = '';" onblur="if (this.value.trim() == '') this.value = 'enter your name here';">

I used my custom trim() String protocol, so here it is for ya.

<script language="javascript">
  String.prototype.trim = function() {
    return(this.replace(/(^\s+)|(\s+$)/g, ""));
  }
</script>