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Hi guys,

What I'm trying to do is, the first time a user clicks on a comment (text area) box which has a default value of ''Enter your comment...' to clear this default value. On subsequent clicks the text should remain.

The code I've written clears the textarea everytime I click on it regardless of what the value/text inside is. Can anyone see the flaw in my logic?




Thanks in advance for your thoughts
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Zein
 
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Why not just preselect the original text. Anything the user types will clear it.
 
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Bear,

Can you give me an example of that please?

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fieldRef.select();
 
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Originally posted by Zein Nunna:






Shouldn't that be:

?
 
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Thanks guys for your responses.

Bear I've never tried your solution before I'll give it a go.

Satish - good point, I'm not near my development computer right now will try on Monday.

I'll post the solution.

Thanks, Zein
 
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Just to update you guys on this issue,

I've fixed the problem, as stated by Satish the code should have read


Thanks for your time and help.

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Zein
 
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