[thelist] Value of Input with CSS

Andy Budd andy at message.uk.com
Fri Aug 13 03:40:47 CDT 2004


> Is it at all possible to use CSS to fill in the empty (and now 
> highlighted)
> text filed with a message say something like "You must fill this in"  
> I am
> pretty sure that CSS cannot set text field values, but that is pretty 
> much
> what I am looking for.

I'm starting to see a worrying trend here. People looking to do in CSS 
something which is obviously a Javascript thing. Remember, CSS is the 
presentation layer, JS is the behaviour layer.

That's what JS was designed to do!


Andy Budd

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