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DaddaBarba
DaddaBarba

Reputation: 75

Ruby on Rails application textarea onclick delete or select the default text

In the form of my rails app i created a text area using the ruby language:

<%= f.text_area :feed_text, class: "text_box", autofocus: true ,:value => "my default text" %>

so the thext, when i open the page, is there, but i want that , like in a lot of social networks, when i click on the text area the default text is deleted or selected.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 280

Answers (1)

Yule
Yule

Reputation: 9764

you can use placeholder from html5 rather than value:

<%= f.text_area :feed_text, class: "text_box", autofocus: true ,:placeholder => "my default text" %>

Note that placeholder doesn't actually put the value in your text box, but shows to the user 'greyed out' so they know what to enter.

Alternatively see: http://davidwalsh.name/html5-placeholder for a fallback method for older browsers

Upvotes: 1

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