https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/initial-value-in-field-that-goes-away-when-user-clicks-into-the-field Gravity Support Forums Topic: initial value in field that goes away when user clicks into the field? en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:22:30 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/initial-value-in-field-that-goes-away-when-user-clicks-into-the-field#post-69995 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:56:13 +0000 Chris Hajer 69995@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks for the code, @minicast. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/initial-value-in-field-that-goes-away-when-user-clicks-into-the-field#post-69992 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:41:59 +0000 minicast 69992@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Here is an alterate method that uses the labels as placeholders and works with ajax validation:<br /> <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/heres-how-to-add-placeholder-functionality-which-works-with-ajax-validation" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/heres-how-to-add-placeholder-functionality-which-works-with-ajax-validation</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/initial-value-in-field-that-goes-away-when-user-clicks-into-the-field#post-44594 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:50:55 +0000 Carl Hancock 44594@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>What you are describing is referred to as placeholder functionality. It's text that appears inside an input and then when the user clicks on the field, it goes away. Currently this is not a built in feature of Gravity Forms, but it can be done as a simple customization.</p> <p>Here is information on how this can be done:</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>We do plan on implementing placeholder functionality as a native feature in the future. We were trying to hold out until HTML5 gained more acceptance so it could be implemented without requiring Javascript as HTML5 supports the placeholder attribute as a built in feature, but HTML5 adoption has been slow. </p> <p>So we are planning on implementing it as both HTML5 and a fallback to using Javascript sometime in the near year. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/initial-value-in-field-that-goes-away-when-user-clicks-into-the-field#post-44556 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:50:27 +0000 dgallek 44556@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Can Gravity for, do this?</p> <p>Also, if it can, does it affect required validation. I wouldn't want the initial text to qualify as meeting a required field </p>