Show/hide help text (Textbox Hints)

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How do you display a hint in a textbox that disappears when the textbox gets keyboard focus?

Posted 25-Oct-10 5:27am

Updated 25-Oct-10 5:36am

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Nish Nishant 25-Oct-10 11:38am

Vote of 5. Not sure why this was 1 voted. People should show some basic sense before down voting reasonable threads.

Nish Nishant 25-Oct-10 11:39am

Geez, so it was a Platinum 1 vote too. Sad behavior there!

Sandeep Mewara 25-Oct-10 11:57am

Gold... you have gold authority... if it's 3/5 now, then the guy should be gold one, ain't it?

Nish Nishant 25-Oct-10 12:04pm

I think it picks the higher of Author and Authority rep.

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TheyCallMeMrJames · Answer 1 · 2010-10-25T05:34:00

You can use an existing jQuery (javascript libary) plugin to make that tick.

Remy Sharp's solution[^]

Cheers.

Posted 25-Oct-10 5:34am

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Sandeep Mewara · Answer 2 · 2010-10-25T05:59:00

Sounds like you need a textbox with Watermark. Have a look at this: TextBoxWatermark Demonstration[^]

Posted 25-Oct-10 5:59am