On buddypress.org, I want to copy the “whats-new” textarea to say “Write Something” in the textbox, than disappear when clicked, but how???

I know there is already a jquery class for that on the search textbox for the groups, members, and forums, but that is it?

Thanks!

[@naijaping Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

`hi, follow this example and you should ok

Field One

Field Two

Whats New Boy…

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[@naijaping Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

or just follow this tutorial: http://goo.gl/Wt84G

[@virtuali Member 13 years, 6 months ago]

This is what I use on my site. Insert this in your post-form.php:

`$(‘textarea’).each(function() {
$(this).data(‘default’, this.value);
}).focusin(function() {
if ( this.value == $(this).data(‘default’) ) {
this.value = ”;
}
}).focusout(function() {
if ( this.value == ” ) {
this.value = $(this).data(‘default’);
}
});`

The above solution will work as well, but the text won’t re-appear if the user clicks off the textarea.

[@djpaul Keymaster 13 years, 6 months ago]

Forget all that. Use the HTML5 placeholder attribute.

http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html#placeholder

[@hnla Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

Forget that html5 an unratified proposal don’t forget things may change, behavior is the safe way of handling this, and anyway you would need to switch to a plain Doc Type sans formal identifier.

You avant guard coders !

[@djpaul Keymaster 13 years, 6 months ago]

I think that’s mostly rubbish in this day and age. Every decent browser supports placeholder, and a lot of other HTML5 features. HTML’s moved away from a “what’s in this version of the specs” to a “what does your browser support” model.

[@abysshorror Member 13 years ago]

@virtuali Exactly where in post-form.php should I put that code ?