https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populate-value-disappears-on-click Gravity Support Forums Topic: pre-populate value disappears on-click en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:05:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populate-value-disappears-on-click#post-201919 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 02:02:04 +0000 Richard Vav 201919@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>You're welcome, I am sure the developers will find away of including placeholders in gravity forms at some stage, it's only recently become widely supported by the browsers </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populate-value-disappears-on-click#post-201772 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 23:25:39 +0000 Jason 201772@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Cool - thanks Richard :) </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populate-value-disappears-on-click#post-201415 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:15:57 +0000 jeffwalker 201415@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thank you so much Richard!!<br /> This process is very confusing. I (along with MANY other requests from other users) sure wish this was a feature of GF. Especially as the only form on the GF homepage uses this. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populate-value-disappears-on-click#post-200929 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:56:23 +0000 Richard Vav 200929@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Jeff, the placeholder plugin you have installed uses the field label as the placeholder, but the placeholder won't work if you have a default value set, which it appears you have. If you remove the default value and then add the text you wan't to appear as the placeholder in the field label you should find it works. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populate-value-disappears-on-click#post-200921 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:43:00 +0000 Richard Vav 200921@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Jeff, have you also set a default value for that field, it also looks like the field label is empty </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populate-value-disappears-on-click#post-200905 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:31:52 +0000 jeffwalker 200905@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm having the exact same problem with trying to get the text disappear once clicked.<br /> I've installed the gravity-forms-placeholders plugin and even added gplaceholder to the CSS Class Name box under the fields advanced tab.<br /> What am I doing wrong?<br /> Thank you</p> <p><a href="http://photographycentral.com/about/" rel="nofollow">http://photographycentral.com/about/</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populate-value-disappears-on-click#post-200784 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 03:46:56 +0000 Richard Vav 200784@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Jason,</p> <p>Your link isn't working but what you are describing sounds like the placeholder attribute which was introduced in html5, it disappears when the user starts typing in the field, it's not available out of the box in gravity forms yet, but it can be accomplished by either using a plugin</p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-placeholders/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-placeholders/</a><br /> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-auto-placeholders/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-auto-placeholders/</a></p> <p>or if you only have a few fields a bit of jQuery would accomplish it as well, the following example would add the placeholder Name to field 1 of form 5<br /> <pre><code>&lt;script&gt; $(document).ready(function(){ $(&#39;#input_5_1&#39;).attr(&#39;placeholder&#39;,&#39;Name&#39;); }); &lt;/script&gt;</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populate-value-disappears-on-click#post-200298 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:58:16 +0000 Jason 200298@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I may well be missing something, but how can I have a pre-populated field (for want of a better word) reset itself when the user clicks in it.<br /> Is this: <a href="https://www.evernote.com/shard/s3/sh/8285df7d-cebe-47c0-aba7-50e813853e06/3f3d88cdbcfc240498fe7190f644ce83" rel="nofollow">https://www.evernote.com/shard/s3/sh/8285df7d-cebe-47c0-aba7-50e813853e06/3f3d88cdbcfc240498fe7190f644ce83</a><br /> The right place to be entering in the text?<br /> You know what I mean yeah? </p>