Leonel *.* wrote in post #955832: > I know how to use the form helpers to create forms. > > What I want to accomplish is something similar to the LOCATION field at > www.krop.com Do you see how it reads Live Search inside the box? As soon > as you click on it, it disappears allowing you to enter your search > terms.
I see that. That can be accomplished with simple JavaScript. And now I understand why you need something beyond plain HTML. > > How can I accomplish the onclick="" event with a form helper in Rails or > some other Rails way? > > I have a login form: Username and Password. The Username field is > supposed to say "Username" and when you click on the field "Username" > disappears, allowing you to enter the Username. Those two paragraphs are an exact repeat of an earlier post. There is no reason to do that. You have created for yourself a technical surrogate goal (the onclick event) that may or may not be related to your real goal (have default text in your search box). In any event, the answer is, I think, that you need to learn JavaScript to do this (do you know JavaScript yet?). Rails doesn't provide a canned helper for this AFAIK, but even if it does, you should understand what it's doing. Are you using Prototype, jQuery, or some other JS framework on your project? A quick Google search turned up http://sourceforge.net/projects/input-default/ for Prototype and http://plugins.jquery.com/project/defaultInputText for jQuery. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
