https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/clearing-default-field-values-with-jquery Gravity Support Forums Topic: Clearing Default Field Values with jQuery en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:09:58 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/clearing-default-field-values-with-jquery#post-57292 Tue, 01 May 2012 21:56:41 +0000 Rob Harrell 57292@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Chris, I think your best bet would be to use a script that places the labels inside of the input - where you could target and style the labels independently of the inputs.</p> <p>I've implemented <a href="http://www.wduffy.co.uk/jLabel/" rel="nofollow">this</a> for a client that worked great, its more semantic and has better fall-back support and validation stays intact. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/clearing-default-field-values-with-jquery#post-57272 Tue, 01 May 2012 18:40:09 +0000 Chris Higgins 57272@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>So stoked with this method (<a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/clearing-default-form-field-values-with-jquery/?_login=caab2b87a2/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/clearing-default-form-field-values-with-jquery/?_login=caab2b87a2/</a>) for adding default values inside of inputs. Just wondering if it's possible to style the default value text without affecting the text that the user enters into the input (eg. a light grey, italic default value, and a black, regular user entered value)?</p> <p>Cheers,</p> <p>Chris </p>