On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Afkham Azeez <az...@wso2.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Chanaka Jayasena <chan...@wso2.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> During recent UI reviews, introducing default text for text boxes,
>> which disappears with user interaction was suggested.
>>
>> I added this to UI core. To add this functionality to any text box follow
>> the three steps below.
>>
>> 1.- Import the following two js files in to the jsp file.
>>
>> <script src="../yui/build/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js"
>> type="text/javascript"></script>
>> <script src="../admin/js/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
>>
>
> You can include this into the header.jsp, so that it automatically becomes
> available for everyone.
>
+1
>
>
>>
>> 2 - Make sure alt, id, value attributes are present and they are defined
>> as follows.( Alt tag holds the default text value for that particular field.
>> Value tag is required and it can initially be empty or it can hold a value.)
>>
>> ex: <input type="text" id="txtBoxId" alt="Enter Name" value="" />
>>
>> 3 - Call this js method to put every things in to action.
>>
>> giveDefaultText("txtBoxId");
>>
>
> When you click on the text box, does the default text disappear. Also, can
> we define our own input type; e.g. <input type="smarttext" ... /> ? In other
> words, our own widget. Calling that Javascript method is cumbersome.
>
Extending a the Dom elements and creating new elements is not very popular
and it's recommended not to do so. But I will give it a try.
>
>> thanks,
>> Chanaka
>>
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