benmeredevelopmentcouk Gravity Support Forums User Favorites: ben@meredevelopment.co.uk en-US Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:14:36 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/highlight-or-delete-default-value-in-field-on-click#post-74480 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:51:00 +0000 David Peralty 74480@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Javascript code should go into the header.php file of your selected theme. Have a look at this article:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Where_Do_I_Put_This_Code%3F" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Where_Do_I_Put_This_Code%3F</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/highlight-or-delete-default-value-in-field-on-click#post-74466 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 11:49:35 +0000 scott74 74466@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hey Ben or Carl, where would I add that JQuery code exactly. I am looking to do this also to save space.... </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/highlight-or-delete-default-value-in-field-on-click#post-18985 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:46:05 +0000 Ben Hutchings 18985@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Ok thanks, I didn't get on too well with the script in that link, and settled for this very simple select script until I have time to get a better one working:</p> <p>jQuery(document).ready(function($) {<br /> $("input.medium, textarea.medium").click(function () {<br /> this.select();<br /> });<br /> });</p> <p>The option to specify that a default value should validate as 'false' will be a much needed and appreciated feature I think. Many forms have the 'prompt' in the fields these days, for simplicity. Not sure what the standards and semantics guys would say, but from a UI point of view its much more straightforward than labels. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/highlight-or-delete-default-value-in-field-on-click#post-18829 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:35:14 +0000 Carl Hancock 18829@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>This isn't a feature that is built in. The only way to currently do it is with some custom jQuery.</p> <p>See this post:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/clearing-default-form-field-values-with-jquery/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/clearing-default-form-field-values-with-jquery/</a></p> <p>It's a feature we do plan on adding in a future release. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/highlight-or-delete-default-value-in-field-on-click#post-18817 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:43:32 +0000 Ben Hutchings 18817@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi, I'd like to use a default value in my 'Single Line Text' fields, and then when someone clicks in the field have it either select the value for overwriting, or ideally remove it.</p> <p>The designing I'm working to doesn't have labels you see.. client thinks they are 'messy' :)</p> <p>I've had a pretty good search around and a read of the docs, but haven't seen a method. I could hack it probably with some JS/JQ but would rather use a built-in method or a tried and tested method if there is one.</p> <p>Cheers!<br /> Ben </p>