Thread: Textarea issue

Hello,
I wanna to do one thing with textarea on my website. I want to put some default text like "add your message here" and when I gonna click on that field that text should disappear and give me ability to type.
How to do this without any PHP or JS?

<textarea name="textarea" id="textarea" cols="45" rows="5">lorem ipsum</textarea>

I may just add that that is an HTML code

Originally Posted by sirBiLL

Hello,
I wanna to do one thing with textarea on my website. I want to put some default text like "add your message here" and when I gonna click on that field that text should disappear and give me ability to type.
How to do this without any PHP or JS?

I don't think you can do this without using PHP or JavaScript. Is there any reason why you don't want to implement a solution with PHP or JavaScript?

u can put that text in placeholder attribute of the textarea.

placeholder option is only available with html5

<textarea id="PageComments" required="required" placeholder="Comments" rows="1" cols="10" "></textarea>
u can use the above code

placeholder is only in html 5 not in html4