Wow, when I think of the hassle I went through writing JS to do this on my
site a few years ago, and now HTML5 makes it that easy now! I shouldn't be
bitter, but I am :)
On Wednesday, 5 December 2012 10:27:25 UTC, dcheeky77 wrote:
>
> I confirm that both solutions worked!!
> Thank you very much!
>
> On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 9:33:35 AM UTC+1, dcheeky77 wrote:
>>
>> Wow, thank you very much, I'll definitely give it a try!!!
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 8:04:33 AM UTC+1, Igor Knyazev wrote:
>>>
>>> You can use HTML 5 <input> "placeholder" attribute to achive that.
>>>
>>> TextBox textBox = new TextBox();
>>> textBox.getElement().setAttribute("placeholder", "some text");
>>>
>>>
>>> check browser support of this attribute here
>>> http://www.w3schools.com/html5/att_input_placeholder.asp
>>>
>>> For rounded borders just add styleName to TextBox with
>>> border-radius<http://www.w3schools.com/css3/css3_borders.asp>property
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 2:35:58 AM UTC+4, dcheeky77 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> I need to use a TextBox to enter some data, but the label which
>>>> explains the field's purpose must be of the kind inside the TextBox
>>>> itself,
>>>> which disappears when the user clicks on the field (I hope I've let you
>>>> understand what I'm talking about ;) )
>>>> I'm using GWT 2.4: is there any such component or a common method to
>>>> achieve the result?
>>>>
>>>> Since I also need to customize the look of the TextBox (rounded
>>>> corners), I was thinking of implementing my own TextBox, but should it
>>>> extend Composite? Or is there some other way for "basic" components?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much for your help!
>>>>
>>>
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