Comments on: Default Form Values with jQuery

By: erickci

erickci — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:41:11 +0000

Hi, You should use .prop(‘defaultValue’) instead of .attr(‘defaultValue’) or it will not works in latest jquery version

Lexicon — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:39:38 +0000

$(this)[0].defaultValue = ‘Search…’
// …

$(this).val($(this)[0].defaultValue);

Stephen — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:12:08 +0000

Thanks, I’m still new to Javascript and jQuery so I was so frustrated with my forms to manually change the values. This snippet is just what I need!