Newbie Question: How to define value in form when using PHP?

Hi,

Im creating a form for vistors to enter their email address in to sign up to our newsletter.

Before the user clicks on the input box I want it to say "Enter Your Email Address Here". Then when they click on it the text disappears.

This seems pretty straight forward normally by using the value="......." and onfocus="......." commands, but my value definition is already set as value="<?php get_data("email"); ?>".

So what can I do? Ive tried using onblur to set it, but that only works once the user clicks on and off the input box. Is there a way to initiate onblur when the page first loads?

Heres the full form code:




Many Thanks,
Steve.

If you're already pulling and populating an email address into the input, why do you want to replace it with 'Enter your Emai..."?

Its ok, I thought of a workaround - used a background image saying enter email address

heh, ok, but I still don't get why you would rather do that than test if the value you've pulled via php is blank or not, and if not, then change input value to "please enter".

I think thats what you want:



.....nvm, you already have a value for the text input. you can try to do a floating div or just div

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though you still want to do the server site checking