Something like this might workd (untested): // when the text field changes $('#myTextField').change(function(){ // if it's empty if ($(this).val() == '') { // give it focus $(this).focus(); } };
-----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raghu Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 11:56 AM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] JQuery bigginer Hi I am learning JQuery and Javascript so asking this simple question. I have a text field which has default value as Day. I want when user focus on this text field then it become empty. How can I do this using JQuery? <s:textfield name="day" cssClass="textbox1" size="3" id="dayOfBirth" value="Day" required="true" maxlength="3"/>