How to automatic delete text in search field?

[floppy]

What to do if i want that the text in the search field delete itself when i click on it?

 

I think this file is the right one but how to change it?

includes/boxes/search.php

<?php
/*
 $Id: search.php,v 1.22 2003/02/10 22:31:05 hpdl Exp $

 osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
 http://www.oscommerce.com

 Copyright (c) 2003 osCommerce

 Released under the GNU General Public License
*/
?>
<!-- search //-->
	  <tr>
		<td>
<?php
 $info_box_contents = array();
 $info_box_contents[] = array('text' => BOX_HEADING_SEARCH);

 new infoBoxHeading($info_box_contents, false, false);

 $info_box_contents = array();
 $info_box_contents[] = array('form' => tep_draw_form('quick_find', tep_href_link(FILENAME_ADVANCED_SEARCH_RESULT, '', 'NONSSL', false), 'get'),
						   'align' => 'center',
						   'text' => tep_draw_input_field('keywords', '', 'size="18" value="Label/Artist/Title"  maxlength="30" style="width: ' . (BOX_WIDTH-30) . 'px"') . ' ' . tep_hide_session_id() . tep_image_submit('button_quick_find.gif', BOX_HEADING_SEARCH) . '<br><a href="');

 new infoBox($info_box_contents);
?>
		</td>
	  </tr>
</form>
<!-- search_eof //-->

[floppy]

nobody? :'(

[GemRock]

nobody? :'(

 

You could achieve this by making changes, not in the search.php file, but the tep_draw_input_field function, which, as far as I remember, hsould be in the html_output.php.

 

Ken

[floppy]

Aaah, thanks for the info! :thumbsup:

I found this in html_output.php:

// Output a form input field
 function tep_draw_input_field($name, $value = '', $parameters = '', $type = 'text', $reinsert_value = true) {
$field = '<input type="' . tep_output_string($type) . '" name="' . tep_output_string($name) . '"';

if ( (isset($GLOBALS[$name])) && ($reinsert_value == true) ) {
  $field .= ' value="' . tep_output_string(stripslashes($GLOBALS[$name])) . '"';
} elseif (tep_not_null($value)) {
  $field .= ' value="' . tep_output_string($value) . '"';
}

if (tep_not_null($parameters)) $field .= ' ' . $parameters;

$field .= '>';

return $field;
 }

 

 

I found the following code in the net but i can't integrate it correct:

onFocus="if(this.value=='here stands anything')this.value=''" onBlur="if(this.value=='')this.value='here stands anything'"

 

Any hints how to do it? :blush:

[worldpar]

I wanted to do the same thing and here is how I did it.

Find the text box you want effected and add this code

Change:

<form action="http://Website/index.htm" method="post" name="name">

<input type="text" size="30" name="name"/>

<input type="submit" value="Text on button" class="button" />

</form>

To:

<form action="http://Website/index.htm" method="post" name="name">

<input type="text" size="30" name="name" value="Text displayed in text box" onfocus="this.value = '';" />

<input type="submit" value="Text on button" class="button" />

</form>

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value="" adds the text you want to display in the text box

And Onfocus="this.value=";" removes it when the box is clicked

 

I hope this will help.