Hi,

 

Please could someone tell me how to leave a message within a form field?

 

I've got a PHP contact form and would like to leave the message within the area they type their message.

 

Thank you

 

Neil

Do you have a link to it? I am not sure what you mean

<textarea rows="5" cols="10">Is This What You Mean ?</textarea>

Yeah sure. The client would like it to say: Let me know what you need doing? Give as much or as little detail as you want. I'll be back in touch very shortly.

 

So she would like this text to appear in the box under where it says 'message'. Then this text should disappear once someone starts typing their message.

 

http://www.emmaheathmakeup.co.uk/contactemma.html

does this link help you if not i will do it for you in jquery

 

http://thewebthought.blogspot.com/2011/10/javascript-delete-default-text-when.html

ok jquery working example

http://www.html5imageeditor.co.uk/wdf/textarea/

and the jquery

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#message").focus(function() {
    $("#message").empty();
})
});
</script>
<textarea rows="10" cols="45" id="message">Let me know what you need doing? Give as much or as little detail as you want. I'll be back in touch very shortly.</textarea>
</div>
</body>
</html>

It worked perfectly. Thank you very much!

You should be using 'Placeholder' for this sort of stuff. It won't work on older browsers, but everybody should be developing with a modern approach imo.

 

<textarea placeholder="Let me know what you need doing? Give as much or as little detail as you want. I'll be back in touch very shortly."></textarea>

You should be using 'Placeholder' for this sort of stuff. It won't work on older browsers, but everybody should be developing with a modern approach imo.

 

<textarea placeholder="Let me know what you need doing? Give as much or as little detail as you want. I'll be back in touch very shortly."></textarea>

yes but but like you say it does not work in older browsers so you need a fallback anyway?

 

http://uniquemethod.com/html5-placeholder-text-jquery-fallback-with-modernizr