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keith on 05/05/09

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Last Edited at 05/05/09 04:11pm

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Toggle INPUT value on focus

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The markup would look like this:
<code> <input class="swap-value" type="text" value="Search"/ ></code>

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swapValue = [];
$(".swap-value").each(function(i){
   swapValue[i] = $(this).val();
   $(this).focus(function(){
      if ($(this).val() == swapValue[i]) {
         $(this).val("");
      }
      $(this).addClass("focus");
   }).blur(function(){
      if ($.trim($(this).val()) == "") {
         $(this).val(swapValue[i]);
	 $(this).removeClass("focus");
      }
   });
});