I have a form with two text boxes. What I would like is when the user clicks in the text boxes the default values disappears. I am using razor so not sure how to add the onfocus event I think I need.
@using (Html.BeginForm("Index", "Home", FormMethod.Post, new { @class = "newsletterform" }))
{
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Name, new { @Value = "Name"})
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Email, new { @Value = "Email"})
<input type="submit" class="newsletterGo" value="Go" />
}
You can user the placeholder attribute. An example of it is the search box at the top of this page
@using (Html.BeginForm("Index", "Home", FormMethod.Post, new { @class = "newsletterform" }))
{
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Name, new { placeholder = "Default Name"})
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Email, new { placeholder = "person@example.com"})
<input type="submit" class="newsletterGo" value="Go" />
}
Also, you don't need to specify the @Value
attribute. The HTML helpers take care of setting the input values for you.