WarterMark in Textbox Using JQuery

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  1. mail.yuva

    mail.yuva New Member

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    The watermark effect is to specify some instruction in the textbox and its very useful to the user to know about the textbox control. For example, A Web form will contains a textbox for the user to enter the Date, you can use the watermark effect on the textbox so that it always displays the date format ‘dd/mm/yyyy’ unless the user has already entered something.

    Watermark Effect

    Then add the following Jquery in Script tag and also include jquery-1.4.1.min.js file in Head tag.
    Code:
     
    $(document).ready(function() {
      WaterMark("#txtdate");
    });
    function WaterMark(ControlID) {
      var watermark = "dd/mm/yyyy";
      if ($(ControlID).val() == "") {
        $(ControlID).val(watermark);
        $(ControlID).css("color", "Gray");
    }
     
    $(ControlID).focus(function() {
      if (this.value == watermark) {
        this.value = "";
      }
    }).blur(function() {
      if (this.value == "") {
        this.value = watermark;
      }
    });
    }
     
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