Reputation: 612

GTK Text to entry

After having a look at firefox's history window, i saw something which i want to implement to my own entry:

How can I make the default text in the entry faded like that?

Upvotes: 1

Answers (2)

Reputation: 57850

Here's an implementation for GTK versions earlier than 3.2:

Upvotes: 4

Reputation: 4228

In GTK+ it's called placeholder text, available in GtkEntry since GTK+ 3.2.

Upvotes: 6