<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>well, after much toil, this is what i came up with to solve my problem. i still wonder if there is a simpler method than this?</div><div><br></div><div>in config:</div><div><br></div><div># this checks to see if the input has "clear" in the class-attribute, i.e. class="searchbox clear" would trigger it</div><div><div>$InputTags['text'][':html'] = "<input type='text' \$InputFormArgs </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>onfocus=\"if(this.getAttribute('class').indexOf('clear')!=-1) holdValue=this.value; this.value=''\" </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>onblur=\"if(this.getAttribute('class').indexOf('clear')!=-1) this.value=holdValue;\" />";</div></div><div><br></div><div>in PmWiki, i figured out how to make a form that duplicates (:searchbox:):</div><div><br></div><div><div>(:input form class="wikisearch" action="<a href="http://mysite.com/Search/index">http://mysite.com/Search/index</a>" method=get:)</div><div>(:input hidden name='target' value='Search/':)</div><div>(:input hidden name='list' value='nocoregroups':)</div><div>(:input hidden name='fmt' value='#SearchPageFmt':)</div><div>(:input hidden name='action' value="search":)</div><div>(:input text class="inputbox searchbox clear" name="q" value="search" size="19" default="search":)</div><div>(:input submit value="go" class="searchbutton":)</div><div>(:input end:)</div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>again, would be nice to figure out how to add a class of "clear" to a searchbox, but found that (:searchbox ... class="clear searchbox" adds the class to the <input form..., not to the actual text field...
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<br><div><div>On 8 Apr 2012, at 5:58 PM, adam overton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">hi friends<div>i want to make a searchbox that says "search" in the field, but that then automatically clears when it's clicked upon. i only want this for the searchbox on some pages, not all.</div><div><br></div><div>is there away to make this happen with (:searchbox:)? or with regular (:input:)'s? i can't figure it out.</div><div><br></div><div>i currently have the following code installed in config that causes inputs with a name like "myInput-clear" to clear when clicked upon:</div><div><br></div><div><div>$InputTags['searchbox'][':html'] = "<input type='text' \$InputFormArgs </div><div> onfocus=\"if(this.name.indexOf('-clear')!=-1) this.value=''\" />";</div></div><div><br></div><div>in the case of (:searchbox:), i can't figure out how to add -clear to it's name.</div><div>and in the case of (:input:), i can easily add -clear to the name, but i can't figure out how to make it do the search i want, and to pass the value.</div><div><br></div><div>ideally i'd like to insert some javascript like this:</div><div><input type="text" name="field-name-here" onclick="this.value='';" onfocus="this.select()" onblur="this.value=!this.value?'Enter Email To Get Updates':this.value;" value="Enter Email To Get Updates" /></div><div><br></div><div>... but somehow i'm not comprehending the PmWiki instructions posted here: <a href="http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/InputFormsAndJavaScript">http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/InputFormsAndJavaScript</a></div><div><br></div><div>thanks for any advice!</div><div>adam</div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>